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Click here to visit our new website! The group has been together for 4 years and is based in Paisley. We are still quite a small group but we are growing and welcome anyone who would like to join us. Our ranks include men, women and children. The women can choose to be troopers or remain in camp, some of our female members take on both roles as required. We meet at St. Ninian's Church Hall in Paisley on the 1st Monday and 3rd Tuesday of the month. Once a month during the summer we spend a weekend at Lapwing Lodge. We use these weekends to set up our camp and to practice re-enactments and drills. We attend gala days, festivals and other events where we can set up a historical civil war camp and/or portray the law enforcement aspects of post Civil War Texas Rangers in the form of historical re-enactments.  In October 2005 we held our third Annual Civil War Ball.The weekend at Millport in September 2005 was our second big camp setup. On both occasions we had a great time at the Millport Festival and we had lots of visitors in the camp. We are pleased to have been invited back once again and look forward to seeing lots more visitors in camp this year. As well as the historical campsite which is available for visitors all weekend, we stage a re-enactment on Saturday afternoon on the beach, a couple of other smaller events, and we will perform a full military Trilogy on Sunday. During 2005 the group attended gala days at Bridge of Weir and Tannahill in Paisley as well as the Millport weekend festival. In previous years we have attended gala days at Tannahill and in Inverness where we also staged a re-enactment, and performed a re-enactment at a private function. HistoryWhen Texas went to war one of the early groups to answer the call was Terry's Texas Rangers led by Benjamin Franklin Terry, a wealthy sugar planter. The regiment mustered on September 9th 1861 with just over 1000 men. The War department in Richmond designated the regiment as the 8th Texas Cavalry.Terry's Texas Rangers first saw battle in Woodsville, Kentucky, on December 17th 1861 when they suffered the loss of CoIonel Terry. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lubbock took command of the regiment but died of iIIness before assuming duty. In his place John Austin Warton was elected to command the regiment. The Rangers distinguished themselves throughout the war by their skill and willingness to fight. They were present at Shilo (April 6-8 1862);as raiders in Kentucky and Tennessee under Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. They fought from horseback and on foot and traveled hundreds of miles behind enemy lines to raid the enemy's sources of supply and communications. They were called upon to provide pickets and scouts for the army of Tennessee. Alexander Shannon (commander of Shannon's Scouts) was a Texas Ranger and hand picked men from Terry's Texas Rangers made up the bulk of his command as he punished Sherman in his march across Georgia and the Carolinas. The final charge of Terry's Texas Rangers was at Bentonville, North Carolina, on March 21st 1865. After nearly 4 years of hard fighting 150 men were all that remained of the gallant regiment. Many Texas Rangers refused to admit defeat and drifted home in small groups never having officially surrendered. The 8th Texas Cavalry was one of the best known units to have served in the Civil War and earned the reputation of being one of the most effective mounted regiments. |
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