WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1836
428
To JAMES MoRGAN 1
Schooner Flora, May 11, 1836.
To Col. Morgan Commanding Galveston Island Having business of importance to communicate to you, I take pleasure in requesting, if you can make it convenient, that you visit me on board the Flora. If possible I wish to see you before the land [ing] of those troops which arrived last evening. Sam Houston Com'I" in Chief By his Private Secy. H. P. Brewster 2 1 Morgan Pape1·s, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas. 2 Henry Persy Brewster (November 22, 1816-November 17, 1884) was born and reared in Laurens District, South Carolina. He studied and prac- ticed law in his native county, but in 1836 he became interested in Texas, closed his law office, embarked for New Orleans, thence to Texas, landing at Velasco in April, 1836. He enlisted in the Texas Army in Captain Henry Teal's company, and shortly afterwards became the private secre- tary to General Houston. At the Battle of San Jacinto he fought in Cap- tain Briscoe's company. After San Jacinto he accompanied Houston to New Orleans, when he went to that city for surgical treatment. Brewster l'eturned to Texas in August and began the practice of law at Brazoria. In 1840, he was appointed district attorney, and held the position until 1843. In 1849, he was appointed Attorney General to succeed John W. Harris, who had resigned. In 1843, he married Ann Elizabeth Royall at Matagorda, and in 1855 moved to Washington, D.C., to engage in the r,ractice of international law. At the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to Texas and was soon appointed Attorney General and chief of staff for General Albert Sidney Joh11ston, and was near that general when he was killed at Shiloh. After the close of the Civil War, Brewster returned to Texas and practiced law at San Antonio. In 1881, Governor Ireland appointed him Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics and History, a posi- tion he held until his death. Brewster County is named for him. See Z. T. Fulmore, History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Namies, 194. Dixon and Kemp, Heroes of San Jacinto, 96-97.
To THE SoLDIERs 1 ON BOARD SCHOONER FLORA, GALVESTON ISLAND, 11th May, 1836.
The Commander-in-Chief, having in consequence of his wound retired from active duty for the present, earnestly requests that the troops now on Galveston Island, and those which may here- after arrive, will cherish towards each other mutual confidence and respect, that they will render obedience to the commands of
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