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THE BATTALION.
Mrs. L. S. Ross, Care Tom Padgitt:
State Headquarters. Texas Division, U. C. V., Gonzales
Texas.—The sad intelligence of the death of your distin
guished husband has just reached me, and personally and as
representing that gallant body of brave men who shared with
him the glories and privations of the Lost Cause, I tender
you that sympathy which can not be put in words. May the
hallowed memories of his noble life be a solace in this try
ing hour. N. B. Sayers,
Maj. Gen. Com. the Texas Division ( . C. V.
A Fitting- Remembrance.
McKinney, Texas, January 4.—Throckmorton camp No.
109, United Confederate Veterans, assembled in a called
meeting this afternoon to take action expressive of the sorrow
felt by its members at the sudden death of Governor L. S.
Ross. Capt. \V. A. Rhea was chairman and Col. G. M. Pear
son secretary. Eulogistic speeches were made of the illus
trious dead Confederate by General T. M. Scott, Col. Aaron
Coffey, Comrades D. \V. O’Brien, L. H. Graves, R. C.
White.
Rangers Notified.
Austin, Texas, January 5.—At a meeting of the Texas
Ranger Battalion, held this afternoon, resolutions were pass
ed expressive of the sentiments of the Rangers with regard-
to the death of their beloved comrade, L. S. Ross. A gen
eral order was issued formally publishing the mournful event
to his comrades and instructing the adjutant of the Battalion
to set apart a page in his record book suitably inscribed to the
memory of the deceased and to forward an engrossed copy of
the order to his surviving family.