Lane's Texas Partisan Rangers and W.P. Lane's Rangers were two different companies. Lane's Texas Partisan Rangers was formed by Walter P. Lane,but W.P. Lane's was formed by Capt. Sam Richardson of Marshall,Texas to honor W.P. Lane. "Texans in the Confederate Cavalry" by Anne J. Bailey--pg.24 "Between the Enemy and Texas:Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War" by Anne J. Bailey--pg.227