WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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Salute our friends, and may God bless you. If the "Chair" should move out this way, let it be sent to the care of Colonel W. P. Rogers,2 Houston, Texas. Thine Truly Mr. C. S. Jones, Sarg. at Arms U.S. Washington, D.C. Sam Houston. 1 Govenw1·s' Lette1·s; also, Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1881, p. 104, Texas State Library. Charles S. Jones, as this letter shows, was Sergeant-at-Arms in the United States Senate in 1860. In 1861, after the war had begun, he was made paymaster of volunteers. He was mustered out with honorable dis- charge on June 1, 1867; he died, August 25, 1891. See Francis B. Heit- man, Historical Registe1· of the United; States Army, I, 579. 2 William P. Rogers (December 27, 1817-May 30, 1862) was born in Georgia, but in his early boyhood his father removed to north Mississippi, and settled in Monroe County, where William P. was reared and educated. He inherited military talents from his father, who had served as captain in the Indian wars under General Jackson. Young Rogers was prepared for the medical profession, but abandoned it for the law. When the Mexi- can War came on, he enlisted immediately, and went out from Columbus, Mississippi, as first lieutenant of the company of which A. K. McClung, the noted duelist, was captain. Upon the organization of the regiment at Vicksburg, before its departure for Mexico, Jefferson Davis was elected colonel, McClung, major, and William P. Rogers, captain of Company K, First Mississippi Rifles Regiment. During President Taylor's administra- tion he was consul at Vera Cruz; then, removing to Washington, Texas, he became one of the prominent lawyers of Texas, his name appearing as counsel in many of the important cases of the Texas Supreme Court Reports. He moved to the City of Houston in 1859, and there was elected delegate from Harris County to the Secession Convention in January, 1861, and became one of the signers of the ordinance. He immediately entered the Confederate Army and was offered a command of a regiment in Virginia, but at the entreaty of his wife, he accepted instead, the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Second Texas Infantry. Rogers particiated in the battle of Shiloh, and in succeeding engagements. He was killed at the battle of Corinth, May 30, 1862. See Sidney Johnson, Texans Who Wore the Gray, l.20-121.
To CLEMENT R. JoHNs 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 20, 1860.
Honorable C. R. Johns, Comptroller of Treasury Sir: Will you please inform me whether in your opinion, Ten per cent interest is to be paid upon the scrip or certificates acknowledged to be issued under the act appropriating $300,000 for frontier defence?
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