retained in safe custody 11ntill we here from you Sc.
I am with great Respect yours. David Thomas Acting Secy at War
(2575) [THOMAS to MORGAN]
War department Harrisburg April 4th 1836
To Col. Morgan Sir
I am informed that all the arms Amunitions and public property have been sent to Galveston. Is learned also some cannon from Brazoria-for the army you will send the cannon up immediately and forty or fifty Barralls of flour And such quanty of sugar & coffee as you can obtain. It is intended to send tho::;c provisions to the army as they are in great need of those articles. You will send them up by the Steam Boat-as soon as po&;ible. I am very respectfully Yours &c David Thomas Acting Sec. at War [2576) [TURNER et al to HOUSTON] Army Camp Near the Brazos, April 4th, 1836. Gen'l Samuel Hous- ton, Commander in Chief of the Army of Texas. Your petitioners represent to you that Private A. Scales, under sentence of death, is very penitent, and has made a promise of a faithful performance of his duty as a soldier in the future for his term of service could he be pardoned for his present offence; and wishes his officers to intercede for him, and your petitioners verily believe him sincere, and will be punctual in the performance of his duty. Your petitioners would therefore most earnestly pray you to reprieve and pardon the condemned.
Amasa Turner, Capt. Inf. Lieutenant Miller -do. W. W. Summers.
[Endorsed:] Head Quarters, Camp West of llrazos, 4th April, 1836 The Comt. in Chief has ordered this petition to be granted!
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