Letters From Veterans

Confederate Veteran
Volume 2, Number 8, Page 227
August 1894

W. H. Albertson, Lake Charles, La.:
"I was a Texan soldier and a member of that famous command, ' Terry's Texas Rangers,' or Eighth Texas Cavalry. I was not with the boys in the first year of the war, only joining them in 1862, but have beard in camp and story their exploits in and around Nashville, more especially of the kindness and partiotic spirit of its lovely women. They always had our prayers and best wishes. It seems to me that there are yet enough of us left to make you strong in the effort to set forth the true principles for which we struggled from 1861 to 1865, and set before our children and the world the fact that we were neither rebels nor ' traitors,' and that we are still strong in the faith that we were right. Never atop my Veteran, for as long as I live I want it, and when I cease to be able to pay for it I will advise you and then I know you will send it to me still."