Memphis Daily Appeal
Memphis Tennessee
May 19, 1861
The advanced corps of the Texan Rangers has arrived at Richmond, Va. The editor of the Dispatch after seeing them says they “are certainly about as dangerous combatants as any the world ever produced. We believe that the far-famed Zouaves, man to man, would be children in their hands. Even if they had no other weapon than the eight-pound bowie-knife, keen as a razor on both sides, and wielded by hands which use it with the most extraordinary strength and dexterity, we should not hazard much in betting on one of these Texan lions against any three of the enemy.”