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   Leander Harvey McNelly (March 12, 1844 – September 4, 1877) was a Confederate officer and Texas Ranger captain. McNelly is best remembered for leading the "Special Force", a quasi-military branch of the Texas Rangers that operated in south Texas in 1875–76.

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   Who was Leander McNelly?

   • McNelly, Leander H. (1844–1877). Leander H. McNelly, Confederate Army officer and Texas Ranger captain, was born in Virginia in 1844, the son of P. J. and Mary (Downey) McNelly. His family seems to have sojourned briefly in Missouri about 1855 before moving from Virginia to Texas in the fall of 1860.

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   What is McNelly's Rangers about?

   • The nation came to call them “McNelly’s Rangers.” Set against the backdrop of 200 years of thrilling Texas Rangers history, this page-turner details the tough life along the Texas border that was tamed by a courageous, yet doomed, captain and his team of fearless men.

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   Why did Captain McNelly organize the Texas Rangers?

   • I n April of 1875, Governor Richard Coke commissioned Captain McNelly to organize a Special Force of Texas Rangers to deal with the bloodshed and crime that was ongoing throughout the Nueces Strip, the narrow strip of land that ran between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande.

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   What was Leander McNelly's most daring exploit?

   • The most daring exploit of Leander McNelly and his Special Force was a mid-November 1875 invasion of Mexican soil at Las Cuevas, some ten miles below Rio Grande City on the Mexican side of the river. The incident began when the U. S. Army chased a gang of Mexican cattle thieves to the north bank of the Rio Grande but refused to go any further.

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   In September 1861, McNelly was mustered in as a private in Campbell's Company, 2nd Regiment of the Sibley Brigade, 5th Texas Cavalry. He saw action in campaigns in New Mexico, Galveston and Louisiana. By the end of the war he was a captain of a company charged with hunting down deserters.

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   Oct 28, 2023 · Leander Harvey McNelly, Confederate Army officer and Texas Ranger captain, was born probably in Brooke County, Virginia (later West Virginia), on March 12, 1844. The 1850 census listed his parents as John and Catherine McNelly, who had immigrated from Ireland by 1835.

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   Leander H. McNelly aka Leander Harvey McNelly (March 12, 1844 - September 4, 1877) was a Confederate officer and Texas Ranger captain, best known for leading the "Special Force" – a quasi-military branch of the Texas Rangers that operated in South Texas during 1875-76.

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   McNelly retired to his farm at Burton, where he died of tuberculosis on September 4, 1877. Leander McNelly and his Special Force of Texas Rangers were spectacularly successful by most measures in dealing with the lawlessness of the Nueces Strip.

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   Leander Harvey McNelly (March 12, 1844–September 4, 1877) was a Confederate officer and Texas Ranger captain. McNelly is best remembered for leading the “Special Force”, a quasi-military branch of the Texas Rangers that operated in south Texas in 1875-76.

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    Apr 4, 2023 · In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic campaign after another, apprehending cattle thieves, desperadoes, border ruffians, and other dangerous criminals and throwing them in jail or, if that's how they wanted it, six feet under.