WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1859
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To WILLIAM C. DALRYMPLE 1 Executive Office, Austin, Texas, December 30, 1859.
To Captain W. C. Dalrymple Sir: You are hereby authorized to raise a company of Eighty three men with three officers and so soon as possible report the organization to me for orders. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, Texas State Library.
To JOHN SALMOND FORo 1 Executive Office, Austin, Texas, December 30, 1859.
Major John S. Ford Sir :-Captain Alexander C. Hill 2 is starting with an express, bearing a proclamation and a letter, which I desire may be taken, or sent by safe hands to Cortinas. 3 If the persons who have been participating in the late dis- turbances, disperse and return to their homes and peaceful avoca- tions, I advise that they be suffered to do so, and that no arrests be attempted for the present. If a different course is pursued, it can be productive of no good, but might cause a renewal of the disorders which I desire should cease. I am daily in expectation of receiving a report from you, as promised in your dispatch of 16th Inst. The Department can give no order until the condition of affairs is known. And, as the management of military operation has been assigned by Federal Government to its officers, if Troops are desired from Texas, it is proper that a requisition should be made by an officer of the Federal Government, in command of the U.S. force at that Station. Sam Houston. 1 Govel"no1·s' LettM·s (Houston), Texas State Library. John S. Ford (May 26, 1815-November 3, 1897) was born in Greenville District, South Carolina. Soon after his birth his family moved to Ten- nessee, where the boy was reared and educated, and where he was married in the early months of 1836. In the summer of 1836, he brought his bride to Texas, settling at San Augustine, where he practiced his profession- medicine--for a few years. He barely missed the battle of Sun Jacinto, but he served in the Texan army from 1837 to 1840, and in 1843 took up his professional practice again. But the hum-drum life of a frontier
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