WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
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To THE CITIZENS OF TEXAs 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, March 14h., 1842. To the Citizens of Texas: Let the troops all be organized and wait for orders to march to any point where they may be required by the President. He will have the earliest intelligence from camp. The whole force of the enemy now in Texas cannot exceed eight hundred or a thousand men-and that of Texas now in camp and on their march vVest of the Brazos must be thirty five hundred or four thousand men. If the enemy do not retreat they ·will be taken prisoners or slain. Sam Houston 1Executive Reco,·d Boole, No. 40, p. 61, Texas State Library. TO GENERAL EDWIN MOREHOUSE 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, March 15h., 1842. To Brigadier General E. Morehouse::? Sir,-You will communicate to the troops now here and anxious to join the army, to take up the line of march forthwith, and report to General A. Somervell, who is in command of the army. An express will leave here immediately to apprise him of the march of the troops, that he may be enabled to give direction as to the proper point of destination. The President will appoint a Quarter Master to accompany the troops on their march, and furnish the requisite supplies. The Executive entertains an assured confidence that when the troops from Harris County, as well as of Texas generally, may meet the enemy, they will sustain the reputation which their valor has already acquired, and that they will add fresh glory to their national renown. Sam Houston. 1Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 61, Texns State Library. :?General Edwin Morehouse. See Houston to Morehouse, Mnrch 10, 1842. To CAPTAIN DE RoLL 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, March 15, 1842. To Captain De Roll: Sir,-Your address to me of to-day has been received; and I
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