WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1835
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To Messrs Austin, Archer, & Wharton, Genl Agents of Texas U. States [ Addressed] : Messrs. Genl S. F. Austin, Dr. B. Archer, & Wm H. Wharton, Esq. General Agents of Texas U.S.N. America Maj. C. E. Hawkins . [ Endorsed] : Sam Houston Deer 19-1835 to Austin, Archer
& Wharton recommending Com. Hawkins. 1 The University of Texas Library (the original). 2 See Houston to James Collinsworth, March 15, 1836.
To WILLIAM P. SMITH 1 Head Quarters, Washington, Texas, 25 Dec. 1835.
Doct. Wm. P. Smith 2 Sir You are hereby appointed Surgeon for this Post, and you will attend to all the sick and wounded now at the place, be- longing to the Regular, or the Volunteer Army, or any, that may hereafter arrive,-and render your accounts to the Governments accordingly- Sam Houston Commander in Chief of the Army. [Addressed]: Doct. Wm. P. Smith Surgeon for the Post of Washington. [ The following report is attached to this letter.] To Major Moody, Sir, You will please to audit the account of Dr. Smith, as Post Surgeon at Washington from the date of his appointment, until tme time he left there. Sam Houston City of Houston, 9th May, 37. [Endorsed]: 1137 $117.45 Doct Wm. P. Smith Filed 9th May 1837 Examd same day admitted to audit as Post Surgeon to the Regiment & has been paid. Admitted to audit for $117.45 Military J. M. Moody Auditor 25th Dec 1835 fl 9th May 1837 No Draft 1475 1 Comptrolle,·'s Military Service Records, Texas State Library. 2 William P. Smith came to Texas from Tennessee in 1833. He seems to have been a man of versatile talents and interests. Besides being a physician, soldier, politician, and farmer-ranchman, he was a Methodist preacher. In 1851 he added another phase of service to an already full life when he became the editor of The Monument (La Grange). This task he undertook, so he himself says, in order that the "Men who went on the
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