Our trust is in the god of battles : the Civil War letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, chaplain, Terry's Texas Rangers, C.S.A.
"Robert Franklin Bunting was a Princeton-educated chaplain who served in the Confederate 8th Texas Cavalry, popularly known as Terry's Texas Rangers. Which saw combat at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga. The manuscript consists primarily of ninety-five letters that Bunting wrote to a variety of Texas newspapers. Designed primarily to describe the unit's movements and actions in detail, the letters also strove to maintain morale as the Confederates' prospects dimmed."
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, ©2006
Personal Narrative
xxxiii, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9781572334588, 1572334584
60644675
Expect stirring news from this region: 19 September 1861-26 February 1862
A brilliant future is opening before this regiment: 20 March 1862-22 April 1862
A brilliant blunder and a magnificent failure: 6 May 1862-3 November 1862
Whenever the rangers confronted him he was routed: 11 November 1862-8 January 1863
The rangers are always there: 2 February 1863-7 July 1863
Texas will do her duty: 21 July 1863-20 October 1863
Thus passes away all our bright hopes: 29 October 1863-6 February 1864
Immortal in their country's history: 26 February 1864-8 October 1864
We are not whipped yet: 7 December 1864-8 April 1865
Field grade, company grade, and staff officers of the Eighth Texas Cavalry
Noncommissioned officers and privates of the Eighth Texas Cavalry