[17041 [MCKINNEY AND WILLIAMS to HANKS AND CLEMENTS J
San Felipe 4th Jany 1836
l\:lessrs Wiatt Hanks & J. D. Clements Members of the council of Texas Dr Sirs
Your may say lo the Hon body of which you are members, that altho it is impossible that our Mr. .McKinney should accept the appointment of commissary, yet if they require that supplies be procured & forwarded to any particular point which they may designate we will either personally or by an agent attend to.it that the present contemplated Expedition against Matamoras may not be found in want in time of need.
McKinnev & Williams ~
[1705) [RUSK to TAYLOR]
[Thomas ]. Rusk lo Charles S. Taylor, January 4, 1836, asking him for a thousand dollars to be used to forward troops.] [1706 J [LAMAR to WARD]
Velasco 5th. Jany I 836.
Dear Sir
The Georgia Volunteers, composed of three Companies, one under Captn. U. I. Bullock, one under Captn. Wynn, and one under Captn. Wadsworth, are organized and commanded by Wm. Ward as Major-and the battallion is called the Georgia Battallion. The Governor has ordered them to occupy Copano, a place on the Mexican frontier about 200 miles to the south of this place- The fall of San Antonio has for the present put a slop to the war-many think it has terminated, that ~fter the si~nal defeat of Genf Cos that the Mexican Dictator ,~ril_l not agam dare to · d I C l Others arc of the op1111on that Santa Anna mva e lie oun ry- 1 S · l b' 1 will make another desperate effort in t 1e prmg .o su ~i_1ga e . I I I of a powerful army, powerful at Texas to Centralism, al t 1e iea(
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