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and lively sensibility to the glorious termination of the present campaign- I ask for permission lo exercise my own discretion as to the force requisite 1 to sustain this post-and for leave to proceed with the balance, forthwith, to Head Quarters. Cherishing the hope that you will grant this request, and advise me ac- cordingly, as speedily as possible, permit me to subscribe myself, with sen- timents of the highest consideration and Esteem, P. DIMITT Com g [Rubric] P. S. Yours of the same date as that above acknowledged, but, we are informed, previously written, and forwarded by Volunteer Baylor, was also recd. at the same time last evening. I infer. from the tenor of the one last penned, that, the implied proposal "to fall back," as stated in the first, was ultimately withdrawn, or overruled. Nothing could have been more grate- fying than this implied information-as, on the other hand, nothing could have been more unwelcome than even the suggestion that such a step was among possible expedients. The adoption of a retrograde movement, at the present moment, unless coerced by imperious necessity, would, it ap- pears to me, with all due respect for the wisdom of your Council, prove little less than fatal. To develope, at length, all the evils, ·direct and con- sequential, mediate and immediate, of such a movement, in our first essay, with the legions to the east, at our backs, cheering and sustaining us, would require pages, whereas it is allowed me to say but little, and that little in few words. Savriego, I am assured, .is below, endeavouring to reorganize-. If I take him again, which I shall try to do, he will hardly be permitted, by me, to rally a second time. P. DIMITT Com g [Rubric] [Addressed:] To Gen. Stephen F. Austin Com. in Ch. of the Army of the People, Head Quarters
W. B. TRAVIS TO AUSTIN
Head Quarters, Novr· 6 th 1835
To THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF TEXAS SIR-Believing that I can not be longer useful to the army without com- plaints being made, I herewith tender to your Excellency my resignation as Capt. of Cavalry- W. B. TRAVIS F. W. JoaNsoN ET AL. PROTEST We the undersigned-assembled at this place with the hope of com- pelling Gen. Coss to surrender-and expecting to accomplish that result
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