WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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judge, & for any service which is not actually required as so re- garded by him, the Legislature cannot be expected to pay you. When an appropriation is made for the payment of minute men, every article purchased by the Lieutenants will be scaled to its marketable value, so you had best be particular in making your purchases, and see that your accounts are all correct. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 125, Texas State Library.
To D. M. WHALEY 1 Executive Department, Austin, April 12th, 1860.
Colonel D. M. Whaley Dear Sir: Your letter of the 5th inst. is now before me. As to the plan of operations against the Indians, I shall have to refer you to Colonel M. T. Johnson, to whose charge the expedi- tion is wholly confided. I fear that you are too late, howev~r, as the Colonel will have to start by the first of May and he informs me that his companies are nearly all made up. You can, however, confer with him at Belknap and if there is time enough, I have no doubt that Colonel Johnson will be pleased to have the son of an old soldier to cooperate with him. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 126, Texas State Library. D. M. Whaley was a Pennsylvanian by birth, but came to Leon County as early as 1834. He was a druggist by profession, and brought a large stock of drugs to Leon County with him, which proved a blessing to that frontier settlement at the time, and financial gain for himself. In 1859, he was elected State Senator, but· when the Civil War broke out, he raised a com- pany of men from Madison and Leon Counties-thirteen from Madison, and the rest from Leon-and organized them at Centreville, July 17, 1861. Whaley was elected captain, J. C. McBride, first lieutenant, and J. E. Anderson and W. G. ·wallace were elected second lieutenants. The com- pany was called "Lion Hunters." It left Centreville on July 25, 1861, for Houston, and was sworn into the Confederate service on August 2, for three years, or for the duration of the war. This company was soon ordered to Richmond, Virginia, and was there organized as Company C, of the Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, of Longstreet's corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. During the winter of 1861-1862 this company encamped on the Potomac near Dumphries. The men suffered greatly on account of lack of proper clothing, and because they were not used to the severe northern winters. Because of his knowledge of drugs, Captain Whaley was able to relieve, to a great extent, the suffering of his men.
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