WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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Virginia and was attached to J. E. B. Stuart's cavalry. He was severely wounded at Orange Court House, from which he was carried to the Uni- versity of Virginia and was nursed back to health in the home of his uncle, Dr. John B. Minor, who for fifty years was professor of law at William and Mary College. After his recovery he joined an independent company of about 100 men commanded by Captain J. Hanson McNeill, with which organization he served until the end of the war. The war ended, young Truehart returned to Texas without a dollar, and started life anew. In 1866, he returned to West Virginia and married Anne Vanmeter Cunning- ham. They had nine children, three of whom were living in 1931. Henry M. Truehart was a public spirited man, and for twenty-five years served as a trustee of the Galveston schools, for seven years of that time he was chairman of the board. He was truly religious, was a member of · the First Presbyterian Church, and for many years was the superintendent of the Sunday School of that Church. He was a Democrat, but by no means a politician; however, he was always interested in all public affairs that had for their purpose beneficent ends. His business interests were many and varied. For a number of years he was a member of the board of directors of the Southern Cotton Press Company; the Galveston and Western Railroad Company; The Texas Trust and Guarantee Company; the Galveston Land and Improvement Company, and was vice-presdient and director of the Galveston Wharf Company. Besides being a director, he was also treasurer of the Galveston Land and Improvement Company. This company owned about 700 acres in the west- ern portion of the city of Galveston; in fact, Henry M. Truehart built up one of the largest, if not the largest, land agency businesses in Texas. His insight, experience and wisdom added to an honest life has been of inval- uable service to Galveston. See John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pionee1·s of Texas; S. C. Griffin, History of Galveston, Narrative and Bio- graphical, 280-285; Marnie Yeary, Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 754-755.
To CLEMENT R. JoHNs 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 26, 1860.
Hon. C. R. Johns, Comptroller Sir-Your letter of the 19th inst. I have had before me and so soon as leisure permitted I reply to it. The proposition for the Comptroller to go at once to Wash- ington City and receive the amount due to the State from the Federal Government does not seem to me necessary, for the reason that, all the matters preliminary to drawing the money can be ascertained by correspondence after sending on the vouch- ers and should any explanation be required our members in Con- gress can give them. By pursuing this course it will save several hundred dollars to the State. So soon as the accounts are adjusted the amount can be Deposited in New York, or New Orleans, and if not, Drafts on
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