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RANGERS AND SOVEREIGNTY.
173
INTERESTING LETTERS
The following letter from Capt. Roberts, who now
resides at Nogal, New Mexico, was read:
To My Old Comrades of Company D, Frontier Battalion,
Texas Rangers:
Words fail to express my regret and intense disappointment
at not being able to be with you at this,
our first reunion.
Although I am denied the great privilege of seeing
you, face to face, and grasping your hands, be assured,
my beloved comrades, that I am with you in
spirit, and that my heart is in this noble work-that
of perpetuating the name and fame of the Texas
Rangers, not only to keep it fresh in our memories,
but that our posterity may fully know and appreciate
the service rendered by our gallant men to the state,
whereby we helped to lay the foundation of a civilization
which they will enjoy, but may fail to recqgnize.
Circumstances have separated us from each other.
I have drifted from my loved old state; but time and
space cannot efface from my memory or eradicate
from my affection those comrades with whom I have
stood side by side, in sunshine and in shade, in conflict
and in times of quiet repose, during so many of
the best years of our lives.
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Roberts, Dan W. Rangers and sovereignty, book, 1914; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5833/m1/170/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.