Now being a Texan, is not a matter of race, it is a matter of courage, morals, fortitude in the face of danger. Being a Texan is an attitude. Texas was a wild and wooly place, took wild and wooly people to make it safe for cowards, late comers who wish to reap what they […]
I Now Know How My Great Grandfather Felt in 1861
My great grandfather, Willian Lewis Carleton. Trained to be a medical doctor under his father, and listened in wonder at the stories of the First American War For Freedom, at the knee of his grandfather, Lewis Carlton, Revolution war solder, wounded in the chest with a musket ball at the battle of Brandywine. Served three […]