1862.50

Texas Ranger Plugs Waaay Too Hard

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Tags	Civil WarCivil War
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Text	“And the game might become so rough as to necessitate precautionary steps. ‘Frank Ezell was ruled out,’ wrote a Texas Ranger in his diary, because ‘he could throw harder and straighter than any man in the company. He came very neat knocking the stuffing out of three or four of the boys, and the boys swore they would not play with him.’” Bell Irvin Wiley, The Common Soldier in the Civil War (Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1952), Book Two, The Life of Johnny Reb, page 159. Wiley’s end-note is, evidently, “diary of D[esmond]. P[ulaski]. Hopkins, entry of March 15, 1862, typescript, University of Texas.” Neither Hopkins’ unit nor its March 1862 location is noted. Note: can we locate the full text and its context?
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Comment	D. P. Hopkins and Benjamin Franklin Ezell (1839 MS - 1913 TX) were members of Duff's Battalion (14th TX Cav Bn., later 33rd TX Cav) which in March 1862 was stationed at/near San Antonio, TX. The Hopkins diary was published in the San Antonio Express, 1-13-1918. [ba] Edit with form to add a comment
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