Lawrence Sullivan Ross
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Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross was the 19th governor of Texas, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the 4th president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas,
Half portrait of Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Elizabeth Tinsley Ross
Pease Ross
Sul Ross in uniform in the 1860s
Cynthia Ann Parker
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Cynthia Ann Parker, Naduah, Narua, or Preloch, was an American woman who was kidnapped around age nine by a Comanche band during the Fort Parker massacre in 1836, where several of her relatives were k
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
…Comanches. After graduation, Ross joined the Texas Rangers, and in 1860, led Texas Rangers in the Battle of Pease River, where federal troops recaptured Cynthia Ann Parker, who had been captured by the Comanches as a child in 1836. When Texas seceded from the United States and joined the Confederacy, Ross joined the…
Cynthia Ann Parker, or Narua (Was Found), and daughter, Topsannah (Prairie Flower), in 1861
Tintype of Cynthia Ann Parker, 1861
Chief Quanah Parker clasping a peyote feather fan
Cynthia's grave