The Colonel: a story of Gunbattles, Trials & Romances in Post Civil War Texas - Hardcover

by Ivan Dublin Hafley (Author)

The story of a Confederate cavalry colonel from Mississippi who had never surrendered and considered himself still a serving Confederate officer in 1869 when he is forced to kill a Union captain in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Realizing the Union Army wants to hang him, he escapes to Texas where he engages in gunbattles, is involved in romances, and is tried twice for murder.