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and did, as far as was in his power to comply with the order given him by the Commander-in-Chief under the laws. He re- ported to the Commander-in-Chief on his return at New Orleans, and subsequently to your several executives in Texas. I have always considered him entitled to transportation for the whole distance travelled by him, as it was performed under special orders. Sam Houston, Late Commander of the Army of Texas [Rubric]
1 Comptrollcr's 1vl-ilitary Se1·vicc Rcco,-ds, Texas State Library.
February, 1839
To HENRY THOMPSON 1
City of Houston, 1st Feby 1839.
Hon. H. Thompson Dear Sir You will please to let Capt. Stansburry have furni- ture, and be pleased to let him also have the Bills which Mr. Hoyle: furnished you with that the articles may be compared with them. Sam Houston [P. S.] My hand is cold. H. [Addressed] : To Honorable H. Thompson Secretary Present [Endorsed] : Genl. S. Houston Houston, 1st Feb. 1839 to Henry Thompson. 1 Lama1· Pave1·s, V, 243. Henry Thompson was a lawyer of Houston, and served as private secretary to Houston for a short time; he was Lamar's private secretary, and was the author of a book entitled Texas ... by Milam. The book shows its author to have been an ardent partisan of the Lamar administration. He ignores Houston almost entirely-gives him only one perfunctory notice, pp. 70-71. See The S01tth-wcsteni Hisfo,-iral Qua.rtel"iy, XVI, 106-107; also the book Texas ... by Mila.m, :stephen Z. Hoyle was enrolling clerk of the Fourth Congress; secretary of State in 1842; and private secretary to Anson Jones in 184 1 1. Seo Harriet Smither (ed.), Jom·nals of the Fom·th Congress, 1839-1840, II, 3, 5; E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Jounwls of the Senato, Rl'public of Tcxns, 1836-1845, 230, 308.
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