would most respeclfully recommend for the place of first Luict. in Lhe Arlitery (providing the place is vacenl) My highly valued friend Mr. D. G. Bruce a gentlemen universally respected by all who know him and whose interest is identified wilh the success of Texas.-
Very Respectfully D Davis D Baker
Please write men lo the care of Mr. D. G. Bruce, Matagorda. [3257] [DISNEY lo AUSTIN]
Cincinnati 2 June 1836
Dr Sir
When you passed through our city I was not so fortunate as to be aware of your being here until about Lhe moment of your departure when accidenlally meeling my friend Mr. Neville he informed me that you were her and just embarking for New Orleans for the purpose of proceeding clireclly to Texas-I regret Sir my not having met you and had a personal inlroduclion to you as I feel intensely anxious to ascertain the fate of a brave & chivalrous brother Richard Disney Esqr. a young man whose clear head & classical education fitted him for almosl any siniation in life but who unfortunately as I fear left us in despite of our wishes and without a single letter or a single reccommendation or a solitary acquaintance joined the Texian army as a private and a volunteer. Knowing our opposition he never even took a formal farewell of us, but left my fathers house leaving nearly all his clothes behind him in order to avoid suspicion,-my father pursued him to Louisville but in vain. Accident Last winter throw a man in the way of another brother who happened at N. Orleans who said that Richard was in the Texian army a first lieutenant, and stationed al Goliad-a few days subsequently to that brot us a letter from my brother Richard dated 22 Feby 1836 at Goliad-in which he says he held the office of first lieutenant in the Texian army-stated that he had joined them as a private had suceeded so far and intimates that he expected daily a higher commission and spoke of the· cause as it deserved and its enemies as being co11lemplible-All this was corroborated by the man at New Orleans who remarked that Richards bravery at Tampico where it
197
Powered by FlippingBook