Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. III

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859

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Very Respectfully Your Obt Sert E. M. PEASE

[Endorsed] Executive Docket Letter to S. A. Maverick and others, Bexar Co. July 25th 1855 Recorded on page 309 and 311. Copy of letter to Bexar Co. 25 July 1855.

No. 139 LETTER FROM E. M. PEASE TO J. H. CALLAHAN

Austin Texas, July 25 1855. Executive Office

James H. Callahan Esqr Dear Sir.

Since I issued authority to you to raise a Company of Volunteers for the protection of the citizens residing on the Guadalupe River and -its tributaries in Comal and Be;;:ar Coun- ty, I have received from the citizens of Bexar County a me- morial asking for a small volunteer force for the protection of the frontier settlements in Bexar and Medina Counties which have been lately harrassed by the depredations of the Indians. I have also received a letter from General Smith in which he says that he will soon send a party of Mounted Riflemen to the neighborhood where the recent depredations have been committed. This information has induced me to believe that instead of calling for additional volunteers besides your company, it will be better for the present to divide your company and send a portion of it to such a point as will afford protection to the settlements in Medina and Bexar Counties West and South of the point where it was first intended your entire Company should be stationed. I therefore desire that you should divide your Company and station one portion of it on the Guadalupe where the recent depredations were committed and the other portion at such point as will afford protection to those settlements in Medina and Bexar Counties that have recently been visited by the In- dians.

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