General William B. Bate Camp #34 Sons of Confederate Veterans

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2806 Azalea Place, Nashville

Camp 34 meets in Gallatin, TN on the second Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm at Bridal House, 2315 Hwy 25 W in Cottontown, Sumner County, Tennessee 37408

The General William B Bate Camp 34 Sons Of Confederate Veterans is located in Gallatin, Tennessee and exists to honor the brave men who served and fought for The Confederate States of America in The War For Southern Independence 1861-1865. Camp 34 is named in honor of Major General William Brimage Bate of Sumner County Tennessee. General Bate also served as the Governor of Tennessee from 1883 unti

06/19/2026

There are two of these men buried in Confederate Circle at the Historic Gallatin City Cemetery.

They rode into battle like they were still on the Texas frontier — and the Union Army learned very quickly that was not a compliment. ⚔️🐴🔥 Terry's Texas Rangers, officially the 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment of the Confederate Army, became one of the most feared and storied cavalry units of the entire Civil War — and their story is one of the most dramatic chapters in Texas military history.

The regiment was organized in Houston in the summer of 1861 by Benjamin Franklin Terry, a sugar planter from Fort Bend County, and Thomas Lubbock, brother of the Texas governor. They recruited over 1,000 men — most of them experienced Texas frontiersmen who had spent their lives on horseback, handling fi****ms, and navigating hostile terrain. These were not parade-ground soldiers. They were men who had fought Comanche raiders, driven cattle across hundreds of miles of open country, and lived rough for most of their lives. When they arrived in the war's Western Theater, their style of fighting — aggressive, fast-moving, and utterly fearless — immediately set them apart. They fought in over 275 engagements across the war, serving under generals Nathan Bedford Forrest and Joseph Wheeler in some of the most brutal cavalry actions of the conflict, including Shiloh, Perryville, Chickamauga, and the Atlanta Campaign.

The regiment paid an enormous price. Of the original 1,000-plus men who rode out of Houston in 1861, fewer than 500 survived to surrender in 1865. Benjamin Terry himself was killed in their very first engagement in Kentucky in December 1861, just months after the regiment was formed. The men who remained fought on for nearly four more years in his name. Their story is one of extraordinary courage and complexity that is central to any Texas Civil War experience. Drop a comment and tell us — did you have ancestors who served in the Civil War? And follow for more of the real, unfiltered history of Texas. 🤠⭐