CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: WM. R. SCURRY 

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@home.com 
12 October 2001 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

WM. R. SCURRY

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Black Lubbock, of Austin, pays this merited 
tribute to the memory of Gen. William R. Scurry, the soldier, 
statesman and orator:  "And 'Glorious Bill Scurry,' as Governor 
Lubbock calls him, the Demosthenes of the Republic, refused to be 
carried from the battlefield of Jenkins Ferry or Saline, until the 
fight was ended,and he heroically let his life bleed away for his 
country.   Oh!  we are all hero worshipers, and why not have sense 
and imagination enough to appreciate our own grand history and to 
find our Texas heroes, when we have so many?"