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D. Jesus Cadenas, living in Rionoso was made Governor He went with the 'froops all t~e time- was in all of the Battles, except at Moreles and Saltillio- Manuel Niiia was Qr. J\Iaste:r General- Genl. Lemus, was 12 months prison~r at lfonterey; Taken to Tam- pico, & thence to Mexico-was born in Havana- He was taken pris- oner at San Fernando whilst he was there after his capture of Saltillio in April 1839-taken to Monterrey, Tampico & Mexico- Released him at Mexico, bought up-he went to Ucatan in the Service of the Fed- eral Govt. with a Detachmt; was whipped; went back to Mexico; but the Govt now lost Confidence in him:_ He joined the Pederalists at San Fernando (below) with 20, men 10 Febry 1839-was made Genl. in Chief, being an older Genl. than Santana- Lemus from San Fernando went to Tampico and talked with Urea, who sent 20000$ at one time and 30 thousand at another to support the war-taken from the Customs at 'fampico- D. Seben Ruiz raised 5 or 6 hundred men about San Rosa Fer- nando &C and marched against Saltillio; attacked it on 20 Feby 1839-was defeat~d- Lemus Captured Saltillio in April 1839- Went thence to Monterrey and went to l\Ionclover, where the force removed from Saltillio with all the public Stores- He went to Sanfernando, San Rosa '&C being expelled the army & was captured at Fernando by Capt 1\fonchaca- He had a brother who was a Col. and taken with the Genl.- John Seguine, ::\larch 30-1842. made prisoner of Gonzales- Vasques sent 2 men into San Antonio as Spies- they reported them- selves to Seguine, who told the spies that he & the .people were ap- prised of Vasques intended march upon the place, for they had been informed of the fact by Don Sen Gonzales of Laredo-Vasques went on accordingly and was joined at Sanantonio by Seguine who returned with him to Laredo- Saguine on reaching Laredo 30 :March made Gonzales prisoner, treated him with great rigor Gonzales was sent to Monterey as prisoner where he was kept in close confinement, ·14 months; brought him to Guerrero, where a Court martial was ordered, by Genl. Wol, _where Seguine appeared as Chief witness against him, whose evidence when sifted, proved to be only hear-say, having known nothing personally concerning the charge-he had only heard thro' rumor that Gonzales had informed the people of Santonio that Vasques was coming- FURTHER INFORMATION DERIVED FROM J\1R. SOTO- Lemus was a citizen of Monterey; chosen as Commander chief- was great enemy to Ugartacher- After the capture of Saltillio, the other principal officers caused him to be expelled from the public Service because he had sent Zapata to follow with only 200 men, the whole force of Ampudia who was retiring from Monterey with 300000$- where he, Lemus had a force greatly superior to Ampudia and might have easily made him .and his army captives '& taken the money. They contended that he was a traitor, & had been bought up by Ampudia- He left with about 20 men, and was making his way as it [was] supposed, to Texas, when he was apprehended by Capt.
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