The following is from Southwestern Historical Quarterly online Vol 062
When war came,David S.Terry after the death of his brothers B.F. and Clint.Left the
west to join the Confederacy. Terry returned to Texas via Mexico then went to Richmond,
where he was given a colonels commision and authority to raise a regiment of Texans.
On his return to Texas he stopped off at Chickamauga to fight in the battle with Terry's
Texas Rangers.The reminder of his career was spent in Texas.
Mike