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pany (publishers), Biographical Souvenfr of Texas, p. 118; William S. Speer (ed.), 'The Encyclopedia of the New West (1881), 131-134· Bio- graphical Encyclopedia of Texas ( N.Y. 1880) , 58-60 ; Memo,-ial and Bio- graphical History of Dallas County (Chicago, 1892), 445-449; Philip Linds- ley, A Histo1-y of Greate1· Dallas, pp. 85-87, 100, 140, 229, 376; George Jack- son, Sixty Years in Texas ( 1894), 94; Goodspeed Brothers (publishers), Me1n01-ial and Genealogical Reco1·d of Southwest Texas (1894), p. 611; Victor Rose, The Settlement of Victo1-ia, 103; J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Dep- 1·edations in Texas, 375-378; Dallas Mo1-ning News, June 2, 1895. 4 For .sketch of James Bourland, see Volume IV, 127, 472. To GEORGE w. HAGLER 1 Executive Department, Austin, Jany 24, 1860. G. W. Hagler, Esq. Dear Sir The Muster Roll of Captain Hamner. It is filed in the Department. In reply to your request, I have to say, as many companies have been ordered into service, as I feel at this time authorized to do. Thus far the Legislature has failed to make any appro- priation of money, to maintain those now called out. The frontiers [-men] have been so much annoyed, and their attention has been called from their homes, and their farms u:n- tended, that they are prevented from making the improvements necessary to the comfort and support of their families. Were I now to call out the citizens of the frontier, it would not be giving protection, for were the men called into service it would leave their families unprotected in their absence in camp. By calling men from the interior, where the people are secure from danger, every man that I send to the frontier is so much protection afforded, and all the present defence of the frontier is left with the families, so that if the Indians should make their way into the settlements, the families will have all the strengtfi, and means of defence & protection, which they at this time enjoy, while every man sent to guard the inhabitants is so much more added for the security of the lives and property of the people. It is protection that our people ask for. They deserve it, and if the means are given us by the Legislature to support a force in the field, I will protect them, and give to them peace & security, while I impose the task of protecting those who need, and deserve their assistance on those who reside in the interior, in peace and
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