REED ANTHONY, COWMAN

TO

CAPTAIN JOHN T. LYTLE

SECRETARY OF

THE TEXAS CATTLE RAISERS’ ASSOCIATION

FORT WORTH, TEXAS

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CHAPTER I
IN RETROSPECT

I can truthfully say that my entire life has been spent with cattle. Evenduring my four years’ service in the Confederate army, the greater portion wasspent with the commissary department, in charge of its beef supplies. I waswounded early in the second year of the war and disabled as a soldier, butrather than remain at home I accepted a menial position under a quartermaster.Those were strenuous times. During Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania we followedin the wake of the army with over a thousand cattle, and after Gettysburg weled the retreat with double that number. Near the close of the war wefrequently had no cattle to hold, and I became little more than acamp-follower.

I was born in the Shenandoah Valley, northern Virginia, May 3, 1840. My fatherwas a thrifty p

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