WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1838
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To JOHN w. MOODY 1
City of Houston, 10th May, 1838
Major J. W. Moody Sir You will continue to pay the officers, and men now dis- charged, or with pay &c., due to this time, agreeably to the rates at which all have been paid up to this time. Hereafter the 1·ate of pay rations &c., will be governed by that furnished to Genl. M. Hunt;~ and the same formalities required. Servants paid for must be mustered on some company Roll or certified to, on honor, by the officer commanding the Post or Regiment. Sam Houston 1 Navy Papel"s, Texas State Library. This note is written on the back of a portion of the Army Register certified to by Memucan Hunt. 2 Memucan Hunt, See Houston appoints Wharton and Hunt agents to the United States, December 31, 1836.
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To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
Executive Department of Texas, City of Houston, May 10, 1838 T'o the Honorable Senate Gentlemen: The President has the pleasure of stating for the information of the Honorable Senate in relation to the case of Moreau Forest, as required in their resolution of the 28th ult. that on the 28th of June 1836, while he was Commander- in-Chief of the Army and was remaining in the Red ·Lands in consequence of ill health, Moreau Forrest passed into Texas as a private soldier, very indifferently clad, and insisted that General Chambers had promised to mount the company as Cavalry as soon as they arrived in Texas. They were engaged for no particular length of time, and insisted that their term of service was for only six months, and that near or quite three months of their term of service had elapsed. There was a faction's [sic] dis- position among them, and an inclination to complain of every- thing. Several of them actually turned back from San Augustine and deserted to the United States. Previous to that time a few days news had arrived from Nacogdoches that there was a great mortality and that cholera was raging at that place, and a want of Physicians to take care of the sick, many of the heads of family being then in the army.
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