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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1836
1 The original commission is in the Sam Houston Texas Teachers College · Museum, Huntsville, Texas. Photost~t, Texas State Library. Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, "Proceedings of the Convention at Washington," 23-24. 2 The copy presented in this collection is taken from the original and retains the spelling and form of that original document. The copy to be found in Gammel, Laws of Texas, has corrected all misspelled words, and does not include the last paragraph, nor the signatures of Ellis and Kimble. Gammel's copy uses the term "Supreme head or Commander in Chief" instead of the term "superior head" as found in the original. But for the exceptions noted, the copies are identical.
TO STERLING C. R0BERTS0N 1 Head Quarters-Washington 5 March 1836
To Sterling Robertson Esquire 2 Sir- You will proceed forthwith to the United States and are hereby authorized to raise such number of Troops as may be in your power for the service of Texas for two years or during the present war-in the event of a Company or Regiment being raised the men shall have the power of electing their own officers who will report their command to the Head Quarters of the Army of Texas without delay. SAM HOUSTON- Comd in Chief of the Army. To Major Sterling C. Robertson. 1 William Curry Harlee, Kinfolks, III, 2851. 2 Sterling Clack Robertson (Nashville, Tennessee, October 2, 1785-N ash- ville on the Brazos, Robertson County, Texas, March 4, 1842), empresario, soldier, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Texas Constitution of 1836. For exhaustive biographical notes see William Curry Harlee, Kinfolks, III, 2813-2913. For briefer sketches see Z. T. Fulmore, The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names, 47-52. S. H. Dixon, The Men Who Made Texas Free, 187-192. J. H. Brown, A History of Indian Wars and Pfonee1·s of Texas, 393. House Jozwnals of the Texas Legislature for September 10, and 11, 1901.
To J. W. FANNIN 1 Head Quarters, Gonzales, March 11, 1836.
To James W. Fannin Sir:
Upon my arrival here this afte1;noon, the following intelligence was received through a Mexican, supposed to be friendly, which, however, was contradicted, in some parts, by another who arrived with him. It is, therefore, only given to you are a rumor, though I fear a melancholy portion of it will be found too true. He states that he left Fort San Antonio on
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