WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1836
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HOUSTON TO THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Columbia, 22nd Dec. 1836.
To the Honorable The Senate Gentlemen It affords me pleasure to make the following nomi- nations, which with great respect I submit for the consideration of your Hon [orable] body, as well as their confirmation: For Senior Brigadier General of the Army of Texas, A Sidney Johns [t] on ; 2 For Colonie! of Ordnance, George W. Hockley ; 3 for Colonel of Engineers N. Winter Smith ; 1 for Adjutant General of the Army, E. Morehouse;' for Inspector General, John T. Collinsworth ;G but not having it in my power to inform myself with regard to those Officers, not nominated for the reason that I have no returns from the Army, and not having been there in person, I will hereafter inforrtt myself with regard to the qua:i- fications of those who present themselves, and will observe singu- lar caution in making the temporary appointments, none of whom will be commissioned, but the whole number will be laid te- fore your Honorable body at the next Session of Congress for your ratification. The Gentlemen nominated are either known to me as highly meritorious or were recommended by the highest authority. Sam Houston 1 E. W. \\Tinkler (ed.), Secret Jo11r11als of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 18!]6-181,5, 40-41. :!Albert Sidney Johnston. See Houston to Thomas Toby and Brother, November 19, 1836. asee Houston to D. C. Barrett, January 2, 1836. ·•Edwin Morehouse was a ntaive of New York. Immigrnting westward, he first went to Pike County, Missouri, and from there came to Texas in 1826. When the Texas Revolution began he returned to New York and raised a battalion from his native State for the assistance of Texas. This battalion arrived too late to participate in the Battle of San Jacinto, dthough they were on Texas soil and heard the firing of the cannon on that battlefield. This New York company remained in the Texas Army until it was disbanded in May, 1837. Morehouse was elected Senator to the First Texas Congress from the District of Goliad, Refugio, and San Patricio, but resigned his s~at on December 22, 1836, to accept the posi- tion of Adjutant General of the Army. In 1838, he was elected brigadier general of militia, and in 1839, commanded n fruitless expedition up the Brazos against the Indians. He died in Houston in 18-19. His brother, Dickerson B. Morehouse, of Galena, Illinois, was a well-known steamboat captain, who plied the upper Mississippi for a decade or more. See La111a1· Papers, III, 272-273. Encyclopedia of the New West, 580. oJohn T. Collinsworth. No additional information concerning John T. Collinsworth is available.
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