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1835 letter from medical doctor, politician and soldier Jack Shackelford to former U.S. representative of Alabama Samuel W. Mardis
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1835 Letter From Medical Doctor, Politician and Soldier Jack Shackelford to Former U.s. Representative of Alabama Samuel W. Mardis. . 1835. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54718.APA citation style
(1835). 1835 letter from medical doctor, politician and soldier Jack Shackelford to former U.S. representative of Alabama Samuel W. Mardis. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54718.Chicago citation style
1835 Letter From Medical Doctor, Politician and Soldier Jack Shackelford to Former U.s. Representative of Alabama Samuel W. Mardis. 1835. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54718.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- Jack Shackelford (1790-1857) was a medical doctor, politician and solider, who played a key role in the Texas Revolution. With the outbreak of the Texas Revolution in October 1835, just a few months after this letter was written, Shackelford raised a unit in Courtland, Lawrence County, Alabama. The members of the unit wore red jeans and became known as the "Red Rovers" of Alabama. Shackelford was one of the few survivors of the Goliad massacre that took the lives of between 425-445 members of the Texian Army.
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