[3636] (BURNET to LAMAR]
Executive Department Velasco 8th July 1836
To Major General M. B. Lamar dear Sir
I have just received Your letter of this morning from Brazoria - and was much gratified that you had found an opporhmity to purchase even a small supply of clothing for the army- We have two large orders in New Orleans for clothing and Still hope a portion of them will soon be recd - But without funds it is difficult to procure everything necessary to the comfortable subsistence of a large number of men in the field - However we will do all that can be done to render yourself and your brave companions in arms, comfortable - Privations are incident to all Camps and the cheerful endurance of the, constitutes one of the peculiar glories of the milita.ry profession- The Sehr. Pennsylvania came into this Port this afternoon from New Orleans I have been so thronged with company since her arrival that I have not fully ascertained that She brings - She has some 20 volunteers and some provisions - A Cargo of provisions will soon arrive at Matagorda from New Orleans and another at Galveston - And there may very soon be ·expected from 4 or 500 volunteers from Kentucky - 200 of them had arrived in N Orleans and would be despatched in a clay of two after the Pennsylvania Saild- 1 have some time since determined to recall all the prisoners from private hands and have only deferred it on account of a want of decision in regard to the disposition to be made of the prisoners generally - The Soldiers have been and still are very profitably employed on Galveston but I have thought of Sending all the Officers to Liberty, on the Trinity river, where they could be supported as cheaply and guarded as safely as at any other point - But I have not yet been fully persuaded that the enemy were really on their march against us, and 1 do not think it probable they will venture to cross the extensive arid prairies on this Side the rio Grande at this dry season of the year - Still I have been willing to act and have acted as though they were actually in motion - and it is possible they may be-
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