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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
No. 2360 1847 Oct. 24, J. A. VEATCH WOLF CREEK, [TEXAS] TO M. B. LAMAR, [LAHEDO, TEXASJ 3 Wolf Creek Oct. 24rd. 1847 Genl. Lamar Dear Sir My company has been organizeu & mustered into serv- ice regularly and we are now busily employed in shoeing horses &c preparatory to a march. I have been some week or ten days later in this than I anticipated, owing mainly to the difficulty of getting good horses. I have however at length suceeded iu mounting 75 men in realy a superb style, many of them armed with good rifles or double barrell'd fowling pieces. My orders from Governor Henderson are to Garrison Laredo, to which point I shall immediately proceed. I shall probably not be able to reach there untill about the middle of next month with the entire company but I have sent on 12 men under the command of a Sergent who may be of much service in protecting Laredo untill my arrival. · I wrote a few days since by express as far as San An- tonio I hope you may have recieved the letter.4- In that I gave such information as I obtained from Henderson with regard to a Com- mander of the frontier forces. Henderson thinks that Col. Bell has left San Antonio to join his regiment- if so orders have been, or will soon be, issued for an election to supply• his place. I have some fears that it may allready have been done & that my company will not get out in time to vote. Should this however not be the case you may calculate upon my men in any thing that you may offer for. A great difficulty has occured in enrolling men for you [sic] company, as I can not give them assurence of their being per- mitted to elect their officers; with this guarentee I belive I could raise a regiment without it- "quen sabe." however I will do the best I can. Remember me kindly to Bee & Peace, and forget not to remind the dear Senoritas that don Juan is sighing to return to them. Yours John A. Veatch. N. B. A rumor prevails here that Van Zant is dead, if so Wood will probably be elected by a large majority. The yellow fever is in Gal- veston.
J. A. V.
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