TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859
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J.M. DEQUIR X mark L M POHL JOHN ECKFORD TB NEWTON
N. 0. GREEN JOHN C. ATWATER OWEN CLARKE
ASA MITCHELL JOHN N SEGUIN SAML RITCHEY
No. 138 LETTER FROM E. M. PEASE TO CITIZENS OF BEXAR COUNTY Executive Office
Austin Texas 25 July 1855
To Messrs A A Muncey S A Maverick A A Lockwood and other citizens of Bexar County Gent. I have received and attentively considered the appli- cation signed by you and a large nti'mber of other citizens of your county, asking me to call out an~ther company of volun- teers for the protection of Bexar and Medina counties against the depredations of the Indians.- I am fully aware of the truth of the details you give in re- gard to the depredation of the Indians to which your citizens have been so constantly subjected for the past year and have made frequent representations on the subject, to the Commanding General of this Department, and to the Secretary of War-since I authorized Capt Callahan to call out a company of volunteers for the protection of the settlements on the Guadalupe and its tributaries. I have rec'd a letter from Genl Smith dated the 15th inst. in which he says he will send a party of Mounted Ri- flemen to the neighborhood where the recent depredations were committed as soon as the Command of Major Simenson returns from the duty he is now engaged in-In mean time I will direct Capt. Callahan to station a part of his company, as soon as it is raised, at such point as will enable them to give protection to the settlements of Bexar and Medina counties, should these not prove sufficient to give security to the settlers, I shall not hesi- tate to call out other volunteers.
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