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forward orders to Fort Arbuckle and Union, to enable the com- missioner on the part of Texas to purchase such articles at those places, as may be needed for the use of the survey. Such orders were issued last year and greatly facilitated operation. Sam Houston.
1 Governo1·s' Letters, Texas State Library.
To JOHN SCANLAND 1 Executive Department, Austin, May 22, 1860.
Mr. John Scanland Sir: I have never been apprised of any necessity for a minute Detachment in your county, hence, I have never forwarded you any orders to that effect. Captain William C. Dalrymple has for months been stationed in Clay and Montague Counties with his entire command; with such a reliable force in the field, the Executive cannot suppose there exists a necessity for further protection. The printed order for March the 9th, was not intended to apply to Counties which were already protected, but those un- protected and in immediate danger from the Indians which fact was to be certified to by the Chief Justice of the County. There having been no necessity for such a Detachment, the Executive cannot regard your Detachment as having ever been in the service. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 163, Texas State Library. John Scanland was a pioneer settler of Cooke County. He was born in Jack- son, Tennessee, July 10, 1837. At the beginning of the Civil War he joined a company that took Fort Arbuckle and captured all the stores, the guns, and ammunition for the Confederate Army. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Joe Harris's Chickasaw battalion, which was engaged in many battles and skirmishes of the war. After the war closed, John Scanland returned home, but found that his fighting was not ended, because for several years he and fellow rangers had to protect the Red River country from Indian depredations. He later settled down to farming and stock raising at Sad- dler's Bend in Red River County. He married Henrietta Wallace, of Lamar County. See B. B. Paddock, Twentieth Century History and Biogravhv of No1·th and West Texas, II, 669-671.
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