TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859 71 cation would be practicable with any degree of regularity- Besides the protection which would thereby be afforded to the frontier, another object in organizing these companies, and stationing them at the points designated, was that a channel of communcation might be kept open between this State and the theatre of war. I have already invited Genl Taylor, Henderson and Colonel Harney, to avail themselves of the means thus af- forded, of forwarding whatever despatches or communications they think proper, and trust that you will avail yourself of the same facility, wherever it may be deemed necessary I will without delay instruct the Captains of the different companies, to make reports every two weeks, or oftener if they can, containing the information which you desire in regard to their Scouts etc, and direct the same to be transmitted to you at San Antonio. I am Very respectfully Your Obt Servt [J. P. HENDERSON] i J. Pinckney Henderson, Executive Record Bof)k, Number 28, Pages 23-24)
No. 72 LETTER FROM A. C. HORTON TOW. L. MARCY Executive Department Austin, August 8th 1846
Sir, From the enclosed correspondence, to which I beg leave to call your attention, you will perceive that on the 26th June last, a requisition was made upon me by Col. Harney, for five com- panies of mounted rangers, for the protection of the frontier of this State. The call was promptly responded to-the citizens of the frontier counties, t.hough poor, and busily engaged in at- tending to their crops, turned out with alacrity, and cheerfully met all the trouble and expense, necessary to be encountered, in order to fill the requisition. The companies were, in all re- spects, complete, and only waiting for an officer of the U. S. Army, to muster them into the service of the Government, (one having been already deputed for that purpose) when, to my astonishment, I received a letter from Major Fauntleroy, the
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