WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1837
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I do not wish any of our forces to go over the Nueces unless great urgency should demand it. Sam Houston. To Col. H.K. [W] Karnes Commanding Texian Cavalry. 1 A1;ny Papers; also Ka.nies Papers, Texas State Library. Houston wrote the name in this letter "Henry K. Karnes," but there is no doubt that the letter was to Henry Wax Karnes. See Houston's Army Orders of April 11, 1836. ~Erastus [Deaf] Smith. See Houston to James Collinsworth, March 13, 1836. 3 See Houston to James Collinsworth, March 13, 1836. •See Houston to David G. Burnet, April 11, 1836. ~see Houston to Thomas Toby & Brothers, November 19, 1836. 6 Colonel Francisco Ruiz was the alcalde of San Antonio for a long t:me while the city was under Mexican rule. His son, Francisco Ruiz, Jr., or "Don Pancho" as he was familiarly called, also held political office in the city, and it was he who held charge of city affairs at the time of its in- vasion by Santa Anna in February, 1836. The Ruiz men, father and son, were friends to the Texans. Colonel Francisco Ruiz, the elder, was a dele- gate from the Bexar district to the Convention of March 1-17, 1836, and became a signer of both the Declaration of Texan Independence and of the Constitution of the Republic. See Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 824, 1066, 1084; also see J. M. Ruiz, Mentofrs, passim. 7 Almanzon Houston (also spelled Huston). See Houston to Thomas Toby & Brothers, October 25, 1836. 8 James W. Tinsley was a first lieutenant in Captain William Wood's company on March 13, 1836. At the battle of San Jacinto he served as Adjutant on the staff of the first Regiment of Texas Volunteers under the command of Colonel Edward Burleson. On May 10, 1837, Sam Houston nominated him Major of a Battalion of Cavalry; the Senate confirmed the nomination on the 22nd of the same month. He was killed in a duel, in 1838, by Major Stiles Leroy, at San Antonio. James W. Tinsley was a single man, and his brother, William Tinsley, was appointed to administer his estate, May 30, 1838. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Sec1·et Jou,-nals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1896-1845, 44, 50. Dixon and Kemp, Heroes of San Jacinto, 127.
APRIL, 1837
ELECTION PROCLAMATION FOR MATAGORDA COUNTY,
APRIL 13, 1837 1 Be it known that I, Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, do, by virtue of the power in me vested, hereby order and direct that on the 25th of April next, there shall be an elec- tion held at the different precincts in the County of Matagorda
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