WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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1 Sam Houston Letters, Texas State Library. No biographical data found for James W. Berry. ~Jeremiah Yellott Dashiell (September 23, 1804-April, 1888) son of the Rev. George and Esther (Handy) Dashiell, was born in Baltimore, l\Iary- lnnd. His father was the first rector of the St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Baltimore. Young Dashiell's early education was received at New Ark, Delaware; he then studied medicine with his uncle Dr. William Handy of Baltimore, and at the University of Baltimore, taking his M.D. degree at the age of nineteen. He located for practice _at Louisville, Kentucky, and became one of the founders of the Louisville Medical College, of which he was for a long period a professor. He later practised medicine at Princeton, Mississippi, but later still moved to New Orleans. In July, 1846, President Pol}{ appointed him Paymaster in the United States army, at the outbreak of the war with Mexico. During this war Dashiell was active at every point occupied by United States troops, except at Buena Vista. In April, 1849, he came to San Antonio as a member of General William Worth's staff, and 1·emained with that command until the death of General Worth. At the outbreak of the Civil war, he joined the Confederacy and served throughout the war as Adjutant General on Lubbock's staff. After the war he became the editor of the San Antonio Herald, a position he held through- out the period of reconstruction. He did much to promote harmony through the editorial page of his paper. Dr. Dashiell was married three times: (1) to Miss Cottman, who left an infant daughter who later became Mrs. E. J. Decert, of New York City; (2) to Miss Mildred Walker Hornsby, of Kentucky, who died, October, 1862·; (3) to Mrs. S. A. Ringold, in 1866. Three daughters and three sons, children of these marriages, grew to adult life. There are many grand- children, some of whom still live at San Antonio. See Davis and Grobe, New Encyclovedia of Texas, III, 2198.
MESSAGE TO THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE 1
Austin, January 13, 1860. Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: A press of public business, which has not allowed time for the preparation of this communication, has prevented me from pre- senting at an earlier period, to the Representatives of the peo- ple, that information respecting the condition of our State affairs and the policy which will actuate my administration, expected at my hands. In the short period which has elapsed since my inauguration it is not to be supposed that I have been able to obtain a critical knowledge of the workings of the different departments of gov- ernment, so as to recommend such modifications and improve- ments as may be necessary to effect the purposes of economy and reform, and I can therefore but commend the application of those principles which should extend to and influence all the
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