[Rarebooks] FS: Confederate Colonel, Walker's Texas Rangers, ALS 1884

[Bob Petrilla]

Ochiltree, Colonel Thomas Peck, 1839-1902. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) ON
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LETTERHEAD, JANUARY 15, 1884: Confederate
Officer from Texas during the War Between the States. Washington DC, 1884.
Original manuscript. One page, quarto; small archival repair on verso.
Contains 15 lines, including signature, in part: "in regard to a fitting
inscription to be placed upon a monument to the great philanthropist Peter
Cooper. Of all men who have existed no one better deserves the beautiful
legend of Leigh Hunt in Abu Ben Adhem--'Write me as one who loves his
fellow man.' ...." Good .
Ochiltree was a member of Walker's Texas Rangers, a Confederate officer,
and after the Civil War a U.S. Representative. He was born at Livingston,
Alabama in the year his family moved to East Texas. He grew up at
Nacogdoches and Marshall; fought indians with John G. Walker's company of
Texas Rangers in 1854; became sergeant at arms of the Texas House of
Representatives in 1856; was admitted to the bar in 1857 by a special act
of the legislature; served as secretary of the Texas Democratic Convention
in 1859, and as delegate to the national convention in 1860; enlisted in
Hood's Texas Brigade in 1861 and rose to the rank of major; was promoted to
colonel four days before Lee's surrender; was captured near Appomattox,
sent to prison camp on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, and released on
appeal to President Andrew Johnson; &c., &c.  $150.00

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