Under the assumed name of George WashingtonArrington, an Alabama fugitive enlisted in the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers on Sep. 1, 1875. John C. Orrick, Jr. grew up fast going off to war at 16 and fighting at both battles of Manassas or Bull Run, Harpers Ferry, Antietam and Gettysburg. He spent the closing months of the conflict as a guerrilla and occasional spy with Mosby’s fabled ...
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