I have tho honor lo be with sincere respect Your Obt. Servt. [Addressed: I To General Mirabeau B. Lamar- Commander in Chief of the Tcxian Army Mr. Cazneau- { 3575 J [INGRAM to PARKER]
S. Rhoads Fisher
Town of Matagorda, June 30, 1836.
To Mr. William Parker.
My Dear Sir: On the 17th inst. I wrote you from camp, Head quarters of the army of Texas, west bank of the Guadaloupc, one league above the Town of Victoria. The express, bearing dispatches from our commissioners, (Capt'ains Tcale and Karnes,) informing us of the immediate return of the enemy upon us, came into camp the evening of that clay, and aJthough I found il impossible to procure ink, I wrote you in pencil, al the moment, informing you of every thing important contained in the dispatches. The next <lay I procured ink and wrote L.A. besancon, Esq., editor of the "Free Trader, Natchez, forwarding both by General Rusk's express to the the United States. And I now enclose for your better satisfaction, correct copies of the letters then received from Matamoras, and a copy also of President Burnett's Proclamation to the "citizens of Texas." · M. B. Lamar, has been appointed Major General of the army. Whether this appointment has been made for the purpose of superseding Houston, or for that of foreclosing any possible question of rank that might arise between Brigadier Generals Rusk and Green, is lo me yet unknown. But as nil the members of the Cabinet are said to be opposed Lo General Houston, and particularly the Secretary at War, Sommerville, it is not improbabJe that the appointment of a Major General has been made for the purpose of furnishing the Head of the War Department, a pretext al least for embarrassing (if not the Commander in Chief elected by the Convention,) the safety operations and movements of the army. Lamar, in the place he occupied at the time of the battle of San Jacinto, nnd even in that to which he was advanced immediately afterwards, stood fnir, and was much respected by the army. And he may be as much reputed by it in that lo which he is now advanced. I can say little, for 1 know but little, of him. He is a
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