Peter M. Holmes Joseph E. Field Johann Bernard Doom James H. Isbell B. B. Bradley
F. D. Gary Ralph E. Sevey- .Manasseh Seven Hugh ~l. Swift T. C. Edwards
Robert Mabcrt William Maberl to and subscribed before me this 14
George ~l. Deadrick George ~I. Leaston
The above sworn
Jany. 1836.
John Forbes Isl Judge of the Municipality of Nacogdoches.
{1783] [NEILL to HOUSTON]
Commandancy of Bexar, January 14, 1836.
Maj.-Genl. Sam Houston:
Sir: . . . The men all under my command have been in the field for the last four months. They are almost naked, and this day they were lo have received pay for the first month of their last enlistment, and almost every one of them speaks of going home, and not less than twenty will leave to-morrow, and leave here only about eighty efficient men under my command. There are at Laredo now 3,000 men under the command of General Ramirez, and two other generals, and, as it appears from a letter received here last night, 1,000 of them are destined for this place, and two thousand for ~latamoros. We are in a torpid, defenseless condition, and hare not and cannot get from all the citizens here horses enough to send out a patrol or spy company.... I hope we will be re-inforced in eight days, or we will be over-run by the enemy, but, if I have only l 00 men, I will fight 1,000 as long as I can and then not surrender....
Your obl. servl, J.C. Neill, Licul.-Col. Commanding.
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