facts that there are in the municipality of Liberty many bad men who are continually depredating on the properly of the citizens and are also believed to be occasionally guilty of taking and driving off horses and mules belonging to the public- The young and active citizens of that municipality have generally gone to the Army and they have not the physical power necessary to restrain these depredations- For these reasons you will please order the Company under the command of Capt. Franklin Hardin lo return forthwith to Liberty for the protection of that region of Country and to await further orders from the department of war-
y our obt Servt David G. Burnet
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[CHAMBERS to FRIENDS OF LIBERTY] [Thomas J. Chambers, Lexington, Ky., to the Friends of Liberty, August 4, 1836, offering for sale from his own property 25,000 acres "of first rate land," the receipts to be used to arm "the volunteers I have engaged, and who cannot be marched to the field of action for want of means."] [3868) [DICKINS to GOROSTIZA] Washington, August 4, 1836. Mr. Dickins presents his respects toMr. Gorostiza, and has the honor to state that, having applied to the War Department for information to enable him to answer the inquiry in Mr. Gorostiza's note of the 2nd instant, Mr. Dickins learns that, by the last despatches from General Gaines, dated 28th June, 1836, his headquarters were al Camp Sabine, and that this position is about twenty-five miles in a southwesterly direction from Fort Jessup, in the State of Louisiana. Asbury Dickins. His Excellency Senor Don Manuel Eduardo de Gorosliza, &c.
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