PAPERS OF 1IRABEAU Buo AP.ARTE LAMAR 387 meet with yo11r aprobation · and disposition to speculate you -can pay to llr. l\Iordaecai the sum of one hundred dollars and give him our note jointely ·for two hundred payable in twelve months after date I will pay to you on my return the amt. advanced if you think propper to enter in said transaction I wish you to wright me on this subject as I have contracted for many other the Genl says the title is perfectly good with the bond of .the individual .from whorn you make the pur- chase Yours Respectfully W D Redd P S Mr fordeica is to relinquish all claims to what pay he may receive from the government of Texas his monthly waiges &c which will be specified in the bond given by hjmself
W. D. Redd
[Endorsed]
[Addressed] Col. Mirabeau B Lamar Secretry War Valasco
William D. Redd
Victoria May 1836
No. 373
[18361 May?], W. D. REDD. ACCOUNT OF HIS :MISSION 'l'O FILASOLA'S CAM:P, (VICTORIAY]
No. 1. 1836
10R1 ING
I was arrou ed from my slumber by by [sic] . the old revilee which is farmiliar to the soldier of the present day I returned to the delibera- tion of a subject, which, I believe had been dispassionately & ma- turely, digested within my own mind, I had determined to communi- cate my own views to Gen Rusk our commanding officer, I did, so, stating to him, the propriety & good effects from an immediate in- terview, with Gen. Philo oli, who commanded the army of operations against us, Gen Rusk readily preceived & predicted its orriginal good but feelt too sensibly-the responsibility devolving upon himself to jeopardize the life of any indiV1dnal so far, as to impera- tively order him to bear any express to Gen, Philosola,. He would not, assumd this responsibility, or authority as the individual would be critically circumstansed, as Gen ·wool, (a Mexican General) had been detained who had introduced himself in our camp, under precisely the same circumstance , & found, [that] which the individual, who might visit the enemys camp. would have to experience, I then askd Gen Rwk if his responsibility for the individual, was the only pre- ventative, he intimated it was I then left him, At that moment, a thousand reflections shot like Electricity through my agitated mind, as I walked to my marguee, •I looked to the supreme ruler of the universe, the dictator of all, good and evil, and tacitly asked his kind protection in this the most perolous act of my youthful life, for a moment I faltered in my youthful intentions for danger, stood errect, in the proad sunshine of my path, I threw down these reflections,
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