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Tuesday, August 4
Book on Hill Brother's Letters Home from the Civil War Available
by
Libby
on Tue 04 Aug 2009 06:21 AM PDT
In 1861 the Hill boys of Hill's Plantation (near Bastrop ) rode off to war. They had signed on with Col. B. F. Terry's 8th Texas Cavalry, better knows as Terry's Texas Rangers, one of the most celebrated Confederate regiments.
They left behind their widowed mother who, too sick to run their large plantation, handed those duties to her seventeen year old daughter Mary Scott Hill (called "Scott" by her brothers.) more » |
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