My maternal great grandfather and his father served in Company "B", Frontier Forces, the Texas Ranger oraganization that immediately preceded the Frontier Battalion. The younger was a 17-year old private, and the elder was the medical officer, with the rank of captain. Would have liked to have adopted one of their personas, but one was too young (or I was too old), and the other was a doctor, so neither seemed to be what I was looking for. Captain A. H. (Hamp) Cox, the commander of the unit, was a name connected to our family, so I went with that. Still have not been able to determine exactly what the initials "A. H." stand for, but assume the "Hamp" was short for Hampton.