WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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As soon as the necessity for continuing the minute Detachments on the field, disappears, you will muster the men out of service, otherwise they cannot expect and will not receive pay from the Legislature. I have today dispatched Captain J. M. W. Hall upon an inspec- tion tour, with orders to disband such Detachments as are of no service, and also to dispose of such men as are useless and worth- less. He will fill their places by substitution should there be an actual necessity. Captain Hall will be with you soon. Sam Houston. 1 Exec1ttive Records, 1859-1861, p. 152, Texas State Library. Frederick Browder Gentry (January 10, 1810-April 10, 1897) was born in Williamson County, Tennessee. He came to Texas in 1832 and fought during the Texas revolution, receiving a donation of land for the service (see Bounty Warrant, No. 9206, General Land Office). He married Rebecca Barnett, a daughter of George W. Barnett, a signer of the Texas Declara- tion of Independence. This couple moved to Hamilton County in 1856, and there Mr. Gentry died. At the time of his death he was an active member of the Texas Veterans Association. Mrs. Gentry died June 9, 1905. Both husband and wife are buried in the Graves-Gentry Cemetery at Hamilton, Texas. See Dixon and Kemp, Heroes of San Jacinto, 232; John- son-Barker, Texas and Texans, V, 2516; Lewis Publishing Company, His- tory of Texas, supplemented with Biog'l'a7>hical mention of many prominent persons and families of the State, 300-302.
To CLEMENT R. J OHNs 1 Executive Department, Austin, May 7th, 1860.
Hon. C. :R. Johns, Comptroller Sir, Will you please inform this Department the amount of University Funds on hand and subject to Frontier defence? Also the amount of River Funds yet undrawn and the amount due on account of Public Debt. Sam Houston.
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1 Exec1ttive Records, 1859-1861, p. 153, Texas State Library.
To MIDDLETON T. JoHNSON 1 Executive Department, Austin, May 7th, 1860.
Colonel M. T. Johnson, Commanding Texas Rangers Sir: Your order to Captain Conner has only just reached me. Previous to its receipt I had ordered Captain Conner's command to be mustered out of the service; the Captain had also discharged
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