General Thomas Harrison

Thomas Harrison was the youngest of only three Texas brothers who all gained the rank of general in the Confederate Army. He lived in Falls County in the 1850s and was a veteran of the Mexican War and of Texas frontier defense. During the Civil War he rose to command Terry's Texas Rangers and rode with the cavalry of Gen. N. B. Forrest, who got "Thar Fustest with the mostest." He fought at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Ft. Donelson, Knoxville, and Atlanta, was wounded three times, and had five horses shot from under him. In 1866 he was elected district judge but was removed by the reconstruction regime, and he later served as a trustee of Waco University.

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