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of this marriage. General McLeod then settled down to a quiet family life, except for serving in a few minor Texas positions. He was a member of the Texan congress, and was later a member of the state Legislature. He was also again appointed adjutant general, and served from 1845- 1846. In 1850, he was a member of the company organized to construct the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railroad, the first railroad of. Texas. In 1855 he went as a delegate to the Southern Convention in New Orleans, and became interested in the Know Nothing movement, but returned to his allegiance in the Democratic party in 1858. Hugh McLeod was a fat, jovial man, personally popular locally, but was not the material of which great statesmen are made, and he is little known beyond Texas. In Texas politics he is chiefly remembered for his violent tirades against Sam Houston. After secession, he enlisted in the Confederate army. As lieutenant colonel, he assisted in taking over the United States forts on the Rio Grande. He was then raised to the rank of Colonel of the Fit-st Texas Infantry, and went to Dumfries, Virginia, where he sickened and died in camp. His body was brought back to Texas, and lies buried in the Texas State Cemetery at Austin. See Lama.r • Papers (6 vols.) passim; Southwestern Historical Qu.arte,·ly, XXVIII, 308-312, also XXXIV, 191-281., vassim,· Thrall, A Pict.oria,l History of Texas, 589 ;, George V·l. Cullum, Biogravhical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Acad- emy, 1, 841; G. W. Kendall, Na1·rative of. the Texan Santa Fe Ex])edition (2 vols.), passim; Francis R. Lubbock, Six Decades in Texas, 185, 199, 233- ::!::!4; American Historical Review, October, 1932; Dictiona,-y of American Biography, XII, 132-133; Gertrude Burleson Blake, "Hugh McLeod, 1814- 1862, His Public Career in Texas," a Master's thesis, University of Texas Library. ORDER AGAINST THE MOLESTATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY 1 Nacogdoches, September 1st, 1838 GENERAL ORDER All persons are forbidden from molesting, in any manner what- ever, the property of Mrs. Johanna Ybarbo, and those who have taken either Household, or kitchen furniture, or corn, or poultry, or cattle, will forthwith restore the same to her, and at the same time report to the officer, commanding at Nacogdoches, all prop- erty which has been taken, under pain of a prosecution. Unless property is specified in an order given, it is a felony to touch any found in possession of any peaceable person unless they are ruining it; and then they will only be detained, and the same reported to the officer above stated. Theft, and Robbery shall be
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put down; it has raged long enough. Done at Nacogdoches 1st Sept 1838
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1 From original owned by Mrs. :Madge W. Hearne.
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