CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: A MERITED TRIBUTE. -  Anderson County, TX 

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15 October 2001 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson
 
A MERITED TRIBUTE.

Commander A. G. Greenwood, of A. T. Rainey Camp, Sons of Veterans,
Palestine, Texas, introducing Judge Reagan to the Camp, said: 
"Ladies and gentlemen:  It is beyond the power of my mind and tongue 
to express the pleasure it gives me, to have the honor of presenting 
to you the man who (alone), has made Palestine and Anderson county 
famous throughout the world.  A man loved, honored, and respected by 
every man, woman and child in our country.  A man who spent sixty 
years in the service of his country and his people and never recreant 
to a single trust.  Search the pages of history, ancient and modern, 
and his life is unsurpassed.  Alex Pope in his immortal essay on man
has said: 'An honest man is the noblest work of God,' and truly do I 
present such a man to defend himself, (as no other man can do), 
against the charge that he was a rebel and a traitor from 1861 to 
1865.  That man is Texas' most distinguished patriot, statesman and 
citizen, John H. Reagan."