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You will give orders that no soldier will leave camp after tattoo, which will be at eight o'clock, P. M. Should anyone attempt to pass the sentinels without leave, it will be thefr duty to prevent them,. No non-commissioned officer, nor soldier, will be permitted to pass into the city without written leave of an officer. You will maintain discipline, and see that regular drills of two hours each day are attended, and the arms kept in good order. Ardent spirits are prohibited in camp or barracks. Guards of sufficient strength to sustain you in the discharge of your duties will be detailed by your orders and kept on regular duty. Sam Houston [Rubric] '"Houston's Private Executive Record Book," p. 157, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams. Colonel Jeremiah R. Clemens (December 28, 1814-May 21, 1864) was born at Huntsville, Alabama, attended La Grange College, graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, in 1833, studied law at Transyl- vania. University, was admitted to the bar in 1834, and began the practice of his profession at his home town, Huntsville, in 1835. In 1837, President Van Buren appointed him United States Attorney for the middle and northern districts of Alabama. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1838-1841; he raised a company of riflemen in 1842, and served in the defence of Texas against Mexican raids. Again in 1843 and 1844 he served in the state house of representatives; then, ,vhen the Mexican War broke out he immediately enlisted and was appointed Major of the Thirteenth United States Infantry till. March 3, 1847; then on July 16, 1847 he was raised in rank to lieutenant colonel and was appointed chief of the department of civil and military purchases in Mexico, a position he held through 1848. Receiving his discharge from the United States army, he returned to Alabama and was elected by the Democrats to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dixon H. Lewis; he served in that position from November 30, 1849 to March 3, 1853. He was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket for Buchanan and Breckenridge in 1856, and for Breckenridge and Lane in 1860. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1858 and edited the Me1n7>his Eagle and Enq11fre1· through 1859; he then returned to Huntsville, Alabama, and in 1861 was a delegate to the Convention in 1861 in which Alabama voted to secede from the Union. He held office under the Confederacy, but became a strong Union man in 1864, and for a time lived in Philadelphia. He died at his home in Huntsville, Alabama, May 21, 1864, and is buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery. In addition to all his political and military career, Jeremiah Clemens was a writer. In 1856 he published a historical novel, Be,-n.a1·d Lile; in 1867 he published M11sta11g Gray (his best book), and in 1859 brought out The R-i 1 ,a{s, a story of the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. See L. W. Payne, Jr., A S11rvey of Texas Literature, 14; William Garrett,
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