WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
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They must consist each of not less than fifty-six men, rank and file, and be completely armed and ammunitioned, and clothed and provisionsed for six months. The arms may consist of rifles J yagers, and muskets with bayonets; and the provisions of pilot bread or flour, bacon, and sugar and coffee. All expenses neces- sarily must be borne by the men themselves, from the inability of the Government to render any present assistance. They shall, however, be remunerated for expenditures, as well as service J from the means of the enemy. They have provoked the war and must bear the burthen of it. The rendezvous for those coming by water has been established at Corpus Christi, where they must report, properly prepared and provisioned, within the time above specified. Sam Houston [Rubric] "'Houston's Private Executive Record Book," pp. 135-136, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams. According to Francis B. Heitman, Histo,-ical Register and Directory of the United States Army. Colonel John Darrington was born in South Carolina, on May 3, 1808, he was captain in the Third Infantry; on December 31, 1809, he was major in the Sixth Infantry; on July 18, 1812, he was lieutenant colonel in the Fourth Infantry, and on April 3, 1814, he resigned from the army. If this is the same Colonel John Dar- rington to whom Houston was writing, he was evidently, in 1842, a some- what elderly man. No further information has been found.
To ROBERT G. LrvrNGSTON 1
Private
Houston, Texas, May 12th, 1842.
To Robert G. Livingston, Esq., Dear Sir,
Your favor of March last has been received; and I use this first opportunity to reply. For the interest you have manifested for the welfare of Texas, and the generous proposi- tions of aid and support in the great enterprise in which we are ·soon to embark, you will please accept my acknowledgments. The war will be prosecuted; and our friends and brethren of the United States are invited to a full participation in the results of our efforts. The field is laid open to the chiYalric and enter- prising of all lands, who will bring with them a spirit of union, subordination, determination and valor. The Single Star of the far South West shall guide them to Victory, nnd ensure to them the admiration of the world. We say, then, to all-Come, and
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