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they will be put upon your service as scouts or spies, and not attached to any particular regiment. Sam Houston. 1 Exec11tive Record Book, No. 40, pp. 100-101, Texas State Library. There are many good brief biographies of "Ben McCulloch." The following are a few of them: Dictioncwy of .4.me1··iccin Biography, XII, 5-6; Victor M. Rose, Lije and Services of Ben lltfcCulloch; H. H. Bancroft, The liisto1·y of Utah, 1540-1880, p 531; Ben C. Stuart, Texas Fighters and F1·ontier Rangers (MS.), 230-231, The University of Texas Library; Sid S. Johnson, Texans Who Wore the Gray, 35-36. 2 Houston refers to the capture of San Antonio by Vasquez. See J. H. Brown, Hfatory of Texas, II, 211-218; also Houston to the Texas Senate, June 27, 1842. A REQUEST IN BEHALF OF CASTRO, THE LIPAN CHIEFt Executive Department, City of Houston, June 21st, 1842. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings: Be it known that Castro, the Principal Chief of the Lipans, with sev- eral of his tribe, has been on a visit of business to the Executive, and is now on his return to his camp in the neighborhood of Austin. On his route, it is expected and requested of all good citizens that he and his people receive evidences of friendship, and be furnished with necessary supplies of beef for their sub- sistence-for which payment will be made by the government, upon proper and sufficient vouchers being produced of the same having been furnished. The Lipans have always proved themselves valuable as friends and allies in the numerous expeditions which have been sent out from the frontiers into the territories of the hostile Indians; and they may, in the future, be very successfully employed in the prosecution of the war against Mexico. Let them, therefore, re- ceive justice and good treatment. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Reco1·d Book, No. 40, p. 101, Texas State Library. APPROVAL OF AN ORDER TO PROVISION THE STEAM SHIP ZAVALA 1 Department of War and Marine, 23rd June, 1842. To Gail Borden, Jr., Esq., Collector, Galveston Sir,- The President has again directed, verbally, that pro- visions be furnished to the men on board the Steam Ship Zavalla.
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