• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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December 12th, 1835 | Red Rovers (Alabama) leave for Texas.

On this day in 1835, the Red Rovers, a volunteer military company, left their camp in Alabama to join the Texas Revolution.

The company was organized by its captain, Jack Shackelford (at Courtland, Alabama) in November 1835 and named for the fact that its members were uniformed in red jeans. The 70 members of the company were equipped with rifles and military supplies from the Alabama state arsenal.

After being inspected by Stephen F. Austin and Nicholas Adolphus Sterne in New Orleans, the company reached Texas on January 19, 1836. They were sent on to Goliad, where they were assigned to the Lafayette Battalion under the command of James Fannin.

During the Goliad Campaign of 1836, they were sent on several local expeditions. At the battle of Coleto, the Red Rovers occupied the extreme right of the front side of the square and acquitted themselves like veterans. The unit was surrendered with Fannin's command, and most of the men sustained a common fate in the Goliad Massacre.
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December 12th, 1835 | Red Rovers (Alabama) leave for Texas.

On this day in 1835, the Red Rovers, a volunteer military company, left their camp in Alabama to join the Texas Revolution.

The company was organized by its captain, Jack Shackelford (at Courtland, Alabama) in November 1835 and named for the fact that its members were uniformed in red jeans. The 70 members of the company were equipped with rifles and military supplies from the Alabama state arsenal.

After being inspected by Stephen F. Austin and Nicholas Adolphus Sterne in New Orleans, the company reached Texas on January 19, 1836. They were sent on to Goliad, where they were assigned to the Lafayette Battalion under the command of James Fannin.

During the Goliad Campaign of 1836, they were sent on several local expeditions. At the battle of Coleto, the Red Rovers occupied the extreme right of the front side of the square and acquitted themselves like veterans. The unit was surrendered with Fannin's command, and most of the men sustained a common fate in the Goliad Massacre.
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And a large number of them are not liberal dem voters.
 
December 12th, 1835 | Red Rovers (Alabama) leave for Texas.

On this day in 1835, the Red Rovers, a volunteer military company, left their camp in Alabama to join the Texas Revolution.

The company was organized by its captain, Jack Shackelford (at Courtland, Alabama) in November 1835 and named for the fact that its members were uniformed in red jeans. The 70 members of the company were equipped with rifles and military supplies from the Alabama state arsenal.

After being inspected by Stephen F. Austin and Nicholas Adolphus Sterne in New Orleans, the company reached Texas on January 19, 1836. They were sent on to Goliad, where they were assigned to the Lafayette Battalion under the command of James Fannin.

During the Goliad Campaign of 1836, they were sent on several local expeditions. At the battle of Coleto, the Red Rovers occupied the extreme right of the front side of the square and acquitted themselves like veterans. The unit was surrendered with Fannin's command, and most of the men sustained a common fate in the Goliad Massacre.
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Us Texans appreciate them and their Tennessee brothers very much.

Long live the Republic of Texas.
 

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