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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 2363 1847 Dec. 14, H[AMILTON] P[RIOLEAU] BEE, LAREDO, TEX- AS, TO [MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE] LAMAR, [AUS- TIN, TEXAS] The organization and muster of Lamar's company; its strength ,md equipment; the election of officers; movements; Wilson and Lettick's bid for the desired mail route to Bexar; Walter Winn for postmaster. A. L. S. 3 p. ' No. 2364 1847 Dec. 20, E.W. MOORE AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO M. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS 7 Early in October 1840 I met off the Island of Lobos a Mexican Schooner from Tampico bound to Vera Cruz, having on board Genl. Pedro Lemos and family, and his Brother, Col. Papa Lemos. They were prisoners on board and on their arrival at Vera Crm. Genl. Lemos was to have been shot by order of the then President of Mexico (Bustamenti). His property in Northern Mexico had been con:fisc~ted by President Bustamenti and he had been deprived of his rank of General in the Mexican Army, a short time previous to my meeting him off Lobos Island. The cause assigned, "was his attempting to get up, or aiding in doing so, a revolution against the Central Gov- ernment." I took them on board the Texas Sloop of War Austin, which vessel was under my immediate command, and after having them on board twenty-eight days, landed them at Campeche early in Novr.: Genl. Lemos proceeded to Merida, the Capital of Yucatan, and was immediately appointed Minister of War and Marine. When I went to Merida, in January, 1842, under the in- structions to carry out the arrangement made by you in the fall or 1841, with the a_gent (Col. M F Peraza) sent by the Governor of Yuca- tan to Austin; I found Gml. Lemos still occupying the position of Minister of War & Marine of the State of Yucatan. When Genl. Santa Anna sent an invading Army into and Blockaded the Ports of Yucatan in the fall of 1842-he being Presi- dent of Mexico, restored Genl. Lemos to his former rank in the Mexi- can Army and placed him in possession of his property, upon which Genl. Lemos left Yucatan and joined the invading under Genl. Ampudia. He was with Genl. Barragan in his expedition against Marida in March and April 1843- Barragan reached within three leagues of Merida, when he capitulated to a superior for of [sic] the Yucatacoes under Genl. Gamboa. · The Governor of Yucatan was very much incensed against Genl. · Lemos for deserting, or rather abandoning the cause of the Yucatan; but he had a large family, ( a Wife and five small children) was re- stored to his Rank; and his estate, which was a fine haciendi near Monterey or Monclova.
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