Fanning.-llere, in a day too, arrived Johnson with authority from the Council, superseding the General in the command of the volunteers. Here let me throw in an anecdote of the General.- During his slay here, he wished to send a small com- pany of regular troops, over whom his authority was not disputed, bnck to Goliad to keep up a force at that place. The soldiers objected to going, saying, they had been many months in the service, had not received a single cent, and had no shoes to their feet, also were without even soap to wash their clothes. Upon this the General took out his purse, and divided among them all the money he had, amounting to $5.00 each, and refused to take any voucher for the same. I may add, as going to the same point of illustration, that he often told me, and others in my hearing, that he would give $5,000 a year to support the war, if he could be excused from the command. Finding he could render no further service here, he issued necessary orders and returned to San Felippe, and thence to Nacogdoches to make a treaty with the Indians. The volunteers becoming dissatisfied with the plans of Johnson, Grant & Co., refused to follow them in their wild goose chase, with the exception of sixty, who
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