The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . nd became Chief Justiceof the supreme court of that state, but Ben F. Terry remainedonly eighteen months. He returned to Texas and located inHouston. In 1852 he purchased the Oakland sugar plantationin Fort Bend County and was there engaged as a sugar planterin 1861. He was elected as a delegate to the secession conven-tion in 1861 and after the adjournment of that body he, incompany with Thomas S. Lubbock, repaired to the seat of warin Virginia, both participating in the battle of Manassas, July21. Immediately after that battle they
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . nd became Chief Justiceof the supreme court of that state, but Ben F. Terry remainedonly eighteen months. He returned to Texas and located inHouston. In 1852 he purchased the Oakland sugar plantationin Fort Bend County and was there engaged as a sugar planterin 1861. He was elected as a delegate to the secession conven-tion in 1861 and after the adjournment of that body he, incompany with Thomas S. Lubbock, repaired to the seat of warin Virginia, both participating in the battle of Manassas, July21. Immediately after that battle they returned to Texas andorganized at Houston a regiment of cavalry which became fam-ous in the annals of the Confederacy as Terrys Texas Rang-ers. Terry was chosen as Colonel and Lubbock LieutenantColonel. Immediately after the organization and equipmentof the regiment they went to the seat of war in Kentucky. Inan impetuous charge upon the enemy Terry was killed at Wood-sonville, Kentucky, December 17, 1861. 260 The History and Geography of Texas TOM V-^ Gen. Thomas Green was born in Amelia County, Virginia, June8, 1814. In 1817 his fathers family moved to Tennessee, wherehis father was for many years a Justice of the Supreme Court. Tom Green received a liberal ed-ucation in the common schools,Princeton College, Kentucky,and at the University of Tennes-see; studied law in 1834 and inthe fall of 1835, when he learned\ of the conditions of Texas, came^^ and joined the army as a private?^ in March, 1836, and was in thecampaign that culminated April 21, at San Jacinto. He was pro-moted to a Lieutenancy for gal-lantry in this battle. He then went back to Tennessee, butreturned to Texas in 1837, held the position of clerk in theCongress of 1838 and in that year was elected Surveyor ofFayette County. In 1841 he was appointed clerk of the Su-preme Court of the Republic and held that office continuouslyup to 1846, and was re-elected to the same position after an-nexation and held
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