A Texas Ranger Escapes Texas

1860: Texas Ranger James Pike described the Central Texas secessionists as “mostly young men, both ambitious and fanatical, who had been led astray by artful demagogues. The unionists, on the other hand, were venerable men of property and character . . . but the secessionists, though few, were organized and armed.” Pike was headed out of Texas before the war started, in late February he passed through Cora, then the seat of Comanche County, and found armed secessionists operating the polls.

James Pike. Scout and Ranger: Being the Personal Adventures of James Pike of the Texas Rangers, in 1859-1860. Reprinted in Narratives of the Trans-Mississippi Frontier. Princeton University Press, 1932.

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