This Day in Texas History: Jones Appointed Commander of Frontier Battalion

May 2, 2013

This Day in Texas History: Jones Appointed Commander of Frontier Battalion May 02, 1874 On this day in 1874, Governor Richard Coke appointed John B. Jones to command the newly raised Frontier Battalion of Texas Rangers.   Jones, a veteran of the Civil War, was well suited to execute the governor’s mandate to put an…
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