Texas honors the valor and devotion of its sons who served with distinction on Kentucky battlefields during the Civil War. At Houston, Texas, during August and September 1861, Benjamin Franklin Terry and Thomas S. Lubbock organized a cavalry regiment that became the storied 8th Texas. Led by Terry, a Russellville, Kentucky native who was a Texas planter and a member of the State Secession Convention, the unit was known as Terry’s Texas Rangers. On December 17, 1861, the Rangers, a charging regiment, engaged Union troops of the 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry under Lt. Col. Henry Von Trebra in the Battle of Rowletts Station at Woodsonville. The military objective was control of the Louisville-Nashville rail line, a vital supply route that crossed the Green River. In the initial charge, Col. Terry fell mortally wounded at this site. The battle was indecisive but presaged expansion of the war in the region and is notable for the loss of one of Texas’ most beloved and promising field leaders. Terry’s Texas Rangers went on to fight with distinction at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Perryville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Bentonville. Never formally surrendering as a unit, its skill as a leading cavalry unit of the Western Theater and its reputation for bravery and willingness to fight despite the odds had their genesis in Kentucky.