About this episode

This episode discusses the story of Alabama's Red Rovers who volunteered to fight in the Texas Revolution.

I mis-spoke: Number of Red Rovers was 60-70 men. They left Alabama and volunteered to fight in the Texas Revolution. Join my blog at: budelepsi.wordpress.com - join and sign up to receive notifications via email. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lone-star-diary--4650023/support .

People in this episode

Host: Murray Montgomery

Topics covered

• Texas Revolution
• Alabama history
• military volunteers
• Red Rovers
• 19th century history

Keywords

• Red Rovers
• Texas Revolution
• Alabama
• military history
• volunteers

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Alabama, Texas

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