Texas Rebel Author:Rita Kerr Churchill Roberts, a loyal citizen of Texas, had deep roots in the land. Churchill was born in Texas in 1836. His parents and grandparents had been among the "Old Three Hundred" who had come to Texas with Stephen F. Austin's first colony in 1823 and settled along the Brazos River. In 1860 the tragedy of the Civil War threatened to divide the ... more »nation. Shortly after the outbreak of the war, Churchill and his brother James joined Major Waller's Thirteenth Cavalry Battalion of Texas. The young soldiers took part in battles in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Churchill and his family, along with other families of the South and North, endured the hardships and destruction of the war. A personal glimpse of a troubled time, the story is based on the records and family history of the author's Texas ancestors.« less