[2309) [STOUFFER AND NEILL to HOUSTON]
fTo General Houston:]
A consolidated report of the troops now under the command of Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Neill, as received at headquarters, Gonzales, March 12, 1836:- Captains, 8; first l1euleHants, 8; second lieutenants, 5 .... 21 Quartermaster's sergeant, 1; sergeants, 25; corporals, 13; musicians, 1; privates, 313 ................... 353 Aggregate ..................................... 374 Twenty-five of the above as yet unorganized.
Lieutenant H. S. Stouffer, Acting Adjutant J.C. Neill, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regular Army of Texas
[2310]
[CHRISTY to ROBINSON]
New Orleans 13th March 1836
His Excellency James W. Robinson acting Governor of Texas Sir
I have had the Honour of receiving your kind favour of the 5th Ulto with the Document accompanying it; for which please receive my sincere thanks. Tis true that the part I have taken in favour of the cause of Texas, has been some what conspicuous, and has injured me Considerably in a pecuniary point of view; But in doing so I but indulge those predelections in favour of National Constitutional and Religious Liberty, which a Republican birth implanted in my nature, and which have been quickened into a lively and permanent Existence by proper discipline, a part of which was that arising from sever service in our last war under generals Harrison Brown & Jackson, therefore I must not take as much Credit to myself for the few Efforts I have make, to aid a much abused and oppressed People struggling to maintain a cause in every way the same as the one I have bled in support of, as you seem willing to bestow upon me-But I have done what I have
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