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... M. D. Rogers of Jefferson. The partners practiced both civil and criminal law. In 1850 Ferris married Mattie J. Crow of Floydsburg, ... He served in this capacity until the end of the Civil War , when he returned to private practice. He established partnerships ...

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... JOHN J. (1910–1986). John J. Herrera, lawyer and civil-rights leader, son of Juan José Herrera, a descendant of the Canary ... With Gustavo C. García , Herrera won two landmark civil rights cases, Delgado vs. Bastrop Independent School District qv ...

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... She died on January 21, 1853. At the outset of the Civil War Richardson lived in Fort Bend County, Texas, and owned a plantation. When the Civil War broke out, he first joined the Twenty-fifth Cavalry as a captain. ...

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... and farmer, was born in 1824 in Tennessee. During the Civil War , Veal served as a colonel in Third Infantry, Texas State Troops. ... E. Letzring, and John H. Luckey, Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide (Hillsboro, ...

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... had moved his family to Galveston, Texas, When the Civil War began Oswald raised his own regiment—the Fourth Infantry ... Minetta Altgelt Goyne, Lone Star and Double Eagle: Civil War Letters of a German-Texas Family (Fort Worth: Texas Christian ...

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... was a resident of Gonzales County, Texas. When the Civil War started, Rayburn was mustered into the Eighth Texas Cavalry , ... February 11, 1863. His whereabouts and death following the Civil War are unknown. ...

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PERALES, ALONSO S. (1898–1960). Alonso S. Perales, civil-rights lawyer and diplomat, was born on October 17, 1898, to Susana ... War I and received an honorable discharge. He took the civil service examination and moved to Washington; it may have been at this ...

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... a successful farmer and owned five slaves. During the Civil War , he enlisted as a captain in Company C of the Fourteenth Texas ... by: Civil War Biographies ...

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... WHITE, THELMA JOYCE (1936–1985). Thelma Joyce White, civil-rights plaintiff, daughter of Ray and Johnnie Mae (Dickins) White, was ... Lawyers, Civil Rights Activists, and Legislators ...

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... again took the field as a field officer. After the Civil War , Townes returned to Red River County and lived in Bogata. On ... Richard Lowe, ed., A Texas Cavalry Officer's Civil War: The Diary and Letters of James C. Bates (Baton Rouge: Louisiana ...

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