WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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On the death of Nacona, see The S011thwcsteni Hi.~to1-iccil QHarterly, XLVI, 16-21, where it is indicated that Nacona survived this battle several years.
TO MIDDLETON T. JOHNSON 1
Executive Department, September 12, 1860.
Colonel M. T. Johnson, Commanding Texas Rangers Sir: Lieutenant Hammet with dispatches from Captain Dal- rymple arrived here last evening. He brought none from you. Under other circumstances I might have been surprised, as it is, I am not. Such a length of time since my orders of August 4th, and nothing thus far has been done. You will immediately upon receipt of this order carry into execution that portion of my orders of August 4th relating to the disbanding of the troops raised by you. You will order the companies to the place where they were respectively raised and have them mustered out of the service in the manner indicated in the orders referred to. Having learned verbally that Captain Thomas J. Johnson~ declines the position assigned to him near Belknap, that portion of my orders of August 4th in relation thereto is hereby revoked, and I have this day ordered Captain L. S. Ross to raise a company of sixty men and repair to that point mentioned, take charge of that station and give protection to the adjacent country. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 225, Texas State Library. ~Thomas J. Johnson was born at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1802. He was educated in the g1·a<le schools of his birthplace. He ran away from West Point to participate in the War of 1812 as drummer boy under General Worth. He served throughout the Mexican War with General Scott, and participated in the capture of Chapultepec. He was a member of the Home Guard during the Civil War, but sent his son, Peter, to the front to serve throughout the conflict. Thomas J. Johnson first came to San Antonio in 1836; after a short stay he left and did not return until 1845. At that time he settled in that city and opened a mercantile store at Commerce Street and Main Plaza, a business that prospered until the Civil War. During the Civil War he was a post trader, and at the close of the war he settled at Fort Stockton, where he operated a store from 1868 to 1872. At that time he returned to San Antonio, where he lived until his death in 1891. In January, 1850, he married Jane Kenfey. They reared a family of five children, some of whom, with descendants, stiJI live in Bexar County. See The Memorial and Genealogical Reco1·d of Southwest Texas, 2274, Published by Goodspeed Brothers, 1894, Chicago.
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