Did it make your hands stink?

Texas Garter snake. A baby one.

its not a garter snake, it is a Brown Snake. Much smaller than a Garter Snake, that's about as big as they get, found in gardens etc. It is about as harmless a snake as you can find. Garter Snakes have a much whiter background.
Prairie Rattler? are you kidding me?

You did good letting it go, keeps the bugs and mice down.

Yeh def not a garter snake. I have one that I caught 2 years ago that I still have today. My daughter wouldn't let me let it go. Pretty cool little guy. Like to watch him eat goldfish.

black panther for sure

Nope. Snaggletoothrattlemoccasin

full grown. little brown snake- official name. harmless. google it.

its an eastern worm snake, we grew calling them ground rattlers, NOT poisonous and harmless

should have all posts, if it has shapes on back probably a diamond back water snake

Yeah, I wasn't too worried about it being venomous. I almost just stomped him out but decided to be nice.

It's called a Dekay's snake. google it. It's in the brown snake family, prolly cause you brown yur drawers when you find it. Startling to find them in the flower beds around the house, but they are harmless.