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the advancement which you have been pleased to make of their brethren in arms, to posts of honor and preferment. Accept, dear sir, our sincere and heartfelt regard. WilJiam Ward, Major. Warren J. Mitchell, M. D., RegimentaJ Surgeon.
W. A. 0. Wadsworth, Captain. David I. Holt, Quartermaster. Henderson Cohart, Assistant. J arnes C. Wynn, Captain. Urich J. Bullock, Captain.
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(1602] [JOHNSON to HANKS and CLEMENTS]
Head Quarters Bexar 24th. Deer. 1835 Esquires, Members for the Committee of Military Affairs.-
Wyatt Hanks J. D. Clements Gentlemen,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 16th Inst. addressed to my predecessor GenL Burleson, & it affords me the highest pleasure lo observe that the conduct of the brave men under my command have merited your applause.- The hostility which several persons in power have evinced to the Volunteer Army, to which you allude, has been seen thro' for a length of time & nothing short of the absolute ruin to Texas which must have been the consequence of the dissolution of that body, could have kept the smaJl band of patriots together so long, exposed to every privation-and above all to the frowns & culumny of those who should have been our staunchest supporters.-The painful consciousness of such decided opposition operated powerfully against a due organization and created a multitude of evils too numerous to mention-until a few resolute supporters of our sacred liberties, working upon the better feelings of a part of the mass, achieved what you so highly intole aLove its real merits, and out of disorder brought about regularity & a system of discipline of those who have submitted willingly to what our present position so imperiously demanded.-
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