Karnes County, TX

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Rip Ford - Cavalry of the West

From Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans by T.R. Fehrenbach, page 377

Only units from Karnes and Guadalupe counties, to the southeast below San Antonio, were taken, along with Captain Tom Cater’s company of men from Burnet, Williamson, and Travis counties. Walthersdorff’s battalion and Dorbant’s and Heermann’s companies were left on the Balcones Scarp. Major Albert Walthersdorff himself, however, was detached to San Antonio to act as Frod’s “tactician.” The German officer was a huge man, who could lift a recruit and shake him with one hand.

Bibliography
Fehrenbach, T.R.. Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. Tess Press, 2000.

From Rip Ford’s Texas by John Salmon Ford, page 345

December 27, 1863 report from Rip Ford to General Magruder

“There will be another company from Travis County, one from Williamson and Burnet, and there are three being organized in Gonzales and adjacent counties. Captain John Littleton has reported a company from Karnes, and a company has been reported from Guadalupe County.”

Bibliography
Ford, John Salmon. Rip Ford’s Texas. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, April 1987.

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