A Texas Scrap-Book. Made up of the history, biography, and miscellany of Texas and its people. Compiled by D. W. C. Baker

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Stephen H. Austin. See p. 253. A TEXAS SCRAP-BOOK MADE TJP OF THE HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND MISCELLANY OF TEXAS AND ITS PEOPLE. COMPILED BY D. W. C. BAKER. / HlC DOMUS, HÆC PATRIA EST. — Virgil. A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK, CHICAGO and NEW ORLEANS Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Preface. The compiler of this volume has for many years been impressed with the conviction that much of deep interest connected with the history of our State would be lost, unless carefully gathered up by one whose heart should be in the work. As year by year has passed away, and one after another of the active participators in the eventful scenes of 1835-6, has been gathered to his fathers, source after source of information has been taken away from us.

Many incidents of surpassing interest have never been written down, and much that would be prized by our posterity can never be given to them. With these thoughts the writer has for years been collecting whatever of interest he could find relating to the history, biography, and miscellany of Texas and its people ; and now, with a view of offering to his fellow citizens of this State a book which will embalm the memory of the past, and enshrine it in the heart of the present, he has compiled this work. Much that is in the.following pages has never been published. Some of it has been published in local papers, or periodicals, and has never been reproduced. A portion of it will be considered to possess but little literary merit. But let it be remembered that in many instances these little pieces are the only legacies by which to perpetuate the memory o*f those who have gone forever.

This book is not offered to the world as a model of literary excel lence, but as an urn in which is gathered the ashes of the days gone by. That portion of it which is devoted to biography, has been made as complete as possible, but there are, doubtless, some omitted who should be here. The notices are confined to those who came to Texas before the revolution of 1836, and who have passed away, with one or two exceptions, among which is Colonel F. W. Johnson, of the heroes of San Antonio.

Preface

. A Complete list of the Governors of Texas, with biographical notices, will be found an interesting and valuable feature of the " Scrap-Book." In this connection, the undersigned begs leave to tender his grateful acknowledgments to Governor E. M. Pease, Swante, Palm, Colonel F. W. Johnson, and others, who have kindly aided him in his work. The Constitution and By-Laws of the Texas Veteran Association, also, a Complete List of all Living Texas Veterans, and a list of all who have died or have been killed since 1828 is appended. This volume, which is the result of much patient labor, is now offered to an indulgent and discriminating public. D. W. C. Baker. Austin, December, 1874. CO NT E NTS.

Part I. Historical

PAGB Early Spanish Missions in Texas £ 17 Historical Notes collected from Registers of Old Mission of San Antonio Valero 18 The Name Texas ig Geography of Texas ■ 20 A Compend of Texas History 23 The Anahuac, or Open ing Campaign of the Texan Revolution 24 Battle of Velasco, in 1832 30 The Celebrated Indian Fight of 1831 35 Storming of San Antonio de Bexar, in 1835 37 Historical Reminiscences — Memorial from Texas Convention of April„l833 39 The Convention of 1836. . . ., .. 53 Declaration of Texan Independence 55 Names, etc., of the Signers of the Texan Declaration of Independence 5S A Declaration adopted by the General Consultation of Texas, November, 1835 60 A Declaration of Independence made at Goliad, December 20, 1835 61 Battle of Concepcion ' 65 Early History of Texas — Campaign of 1835 .^rT 67 First Sunday School in Texas ' O9 The Texas Navy 77 Expedition West, under Johnson, Grant, and Morris 80 First breaking out of the Texas.

Revolution at Gonzales 83 Texas 86 Austin's First Colony 88 Momentous Incident of the Texas Revolution — Reconciliation of Austin and Wharton. 89 The Grass Fight 92 Military Events of Texas 92 The Battle of San Jacinto 95 Revolutionary Incidents — Burning of Vince's Bridge 98 Early History of Texas *°* The Fall of the Alamo VI CONTENTS.

PAEC Monument erected to the Heroes of the Alamo II2 Names Inscribed on Monument r 1 3 Description of the Monument Ir4 Ground Plan and Description of the Alamo XI5 The Babe of the Alamo Il6 Seat of Government I:° Historical Statistics concerning Texas ._ I2° Early History of Texas I22 Death of Big Foot '. 1 24 Dawson's Defeat I24 Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 I26 Battle of Mier T27 Texas Indians ■ T32 Description of Old Goliad, or La Bahia I3S Scene on the Battle-field of Salado *36 Texas Indian Wars — Scalping of Wilbarger in 1834 13S The Morgan Massacre *40 Bryant's Fight and Defeat M1 The Archive War — A Leaf from the History of Austin I-P Fannin's Massacre J44 The Carankawa Indians J45 Texas History 147 Comache Fight at San Antonio *54 Another Chapter of our Early History ■ . 155 Incidents of Texas History 157 Adventures of a Texan Volunteer 160 A Relic of the Texas Revolution 165 More of the Texas Revolution - 169 A Reminiscence of the Mexican war of 1 846 172 Judicial Organization of Austin's Colony .... 175 Civil Regulations 175 Fees 177 Criminal Regulations 177 La Salle 1/9 Speech of Honorable Guy M. Bryan ' 181 Old Fort Parker 198 Letter from Stephen F. Austin to the Senate of Texas 202 Speech of Colonel Charles De Morse .• 204 Official Account of the Fall of Bexar, and Surrender of General Cos 21S Revolution of Texas in 1812 224 Philip Nolan 229 The Last of the Alabamas 236 Waco — A Leaf from its History 237 Aboriginal Antiquities of Texas 23S Fannin's Massacre — Account of the Georgia Battalion CONTENTS, VII

Part II. Biography

PAGE Distinguished Texans. Stephen F. Austin . . 253 Sam Houston .' 255 David G. Burnett 257 Mirabeau B. Lamar 258 Anson Jones 259 Lorenzo de Zavalla 259 Baron de Bastrop 260 Don Erasmo Seguin 260 Benjamin R. Milam 26o William B. Travis 261 J. W. Fannin 262 David Crockett 262 Thomas J. Rusk 264 Dr. Branch T. Archer 265 William H Wharton 267 John A. Wharton 2°7 Patrick C. Jack 267 William H. Jack 267 Dr. James B. Miller 267 Sidney Sherman 268 Edward Burleson 268 Frank W. Johnson 269 James Bowie 209 J. B. Bonham 27° James Hamilton 270 E. M. Moore 27° Thomas Green 27° Albert Sidney Johnston 271 Ben McCulloch 271 Mosly Baker "■ 272 G. W. Hockley 272 Memucan Hunt. 272 Thomas William Ward 272 Joseph Baker 272 Dr. Francis Moore 273 George W. Smyth 273 Albert C. Horton 273 R. M. Williamson 274 Wylie Martin.. , '. 274 Benjamin C. Franklin. ...

CONTENTS. PAGE Distinguished Texans. Henry Smith .■ 274 Baily H ardeman 275 David Thomas 75 Robert Potter 275 Joshua Fletcher 275 John Rice Jones 275 James W. Robinson 275 Samuel P. Carson 276 Thomas J. Chambers •' 276 Thomas Jefferson Green 27° Hugh D. McLeod 276 Alexander Somerville 277 Lieutenant-Colonel Ward 277 Felix Huston 277 Dr. James Grant 277 Peter W. Grayson 278 Robert Morris 278 " Deaf Smith " 278 Asa Brigham 27° James Collingsworth ■ ■* 27° Philip Dimmitt 279 W. S. Fisher 279 S. Rhoads Fisher 279 Richard Ellis 279 Samuel M. Williams 279 Thomas F. McKinney 279 Michael B. Menard 280 Oliver Jones 280 Jesse Grimes 2S° Kenneth Lewis Anderson t 28o Martin Parmer 280 Henry Karnes • 28l Reminiscences of Early Texans. Captain Henry S. Brown 282 Captain Randal Jones .' 284 Sketch of the Life of Henry Castro 286 John Austin •. 287 W. T. Austin 2S7 Collin McKinney 287 James G. Swisher 287 Sam Maverick 287 Andrew Briscoe 287 Ira Ingram 288 Sterling C. Robertson 288 Warren D. C. Hall CONTENTS.

IX PAGE Reminiscences of Early Texans — Continued. George C. Childress 289 Jose Antonio Navarro 289 Robert Wilson 289 Thomas J. Hardeman 289 Colonel Barnard E. Bee 289 R. R. Royal 290 Benjamin Fort Smith 290 James Kerr 29° John Caldwell 292 Matt Caldwell • 292 Biographies of Governors of Texas. James Pinckney Henderson 293 George T. Wood 293 P. Hansboro Bell 293 Elisha M. Pease 294 Hardin R. Runnels 294 Edward Clark 294 Frank R. Lubbock 294 Pendleton Murrah 295 A. J. Hamilton 295 J. W. Throckmorton 296 Edmund J. Davis 296 Richard Coke 297 W. B. Ochiltree 298 Major Valentine Bennett 298 Biographical Notices of Deceased Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. John Hemphill 300 Abner S. Lipscomb -. 3©o Royal F. Wheeler 3°i

Part III Miscellany

Houston's First Inaugural Address 3°5 Sudden Floods in Texas 308 M. De Saligny 310 Anecdote of David G. Burnet 3r° Anecdote of Stephen F. Austin 3" Fred Dawson 31* Governor Bell and Captain S CONTENTS. X FAGE Another Unpublished Anecdote of General Sam Houston 3X3 A Bear Fight 313 A Pig meddles in Diplomacy 3r5 Judge Burnet's Oration at the Funeral of John A. Wharton 3T5 Aaron Burr 3l8 Ellis F. Bean 322 Texas Sports 325 Floods in the Colorado 327 Extract from General Houston's Proclamation, December 12, 1835 328 San Jacinto ; 329 A Texas Prairie in Spring-time 33° A Prairie Sunset 330 Houston's Letter to Santa Anna, March, 1842 331 From Governor Smith's Address 332 President Burnet's Proclamation, June 20, 1836 332 Houston to Santa Anna, March, 1842 333 The Flag of the Lone Star 334 From President Lamar's Message, November, 1840 335 Speech of D. S. Kaufman, welcoming M. de Saligny, November 17, 1840 335 From a speech of Honorable Forbes Britton, November 21, 1857 336 From the Remarks of Chief-Justice Hemphill on the death of General James Hamilton, December, 1857 337 From the Eulogy on Honorable James Webb, by Honorable J. C. Wilson, November, i83° 337 Extract from Address by Stephen F. Austin, in Louisville, Kentucky, March, 1S36 338 Hymn of the Alamo 338 From the Valedictory Address of President Anson Jones, at Inauguration of New State Government, February 19, 1849 339 From Report of Committee on Foreign Relations, June 20, 1845 340 * The Lone Star of Texas 341 Ad.

Lawrence's Ride 342 The Currency during the War of 1861-65 345 Last Days of the Trans-Mississippi Department 348 Mexican Revolutions 350 Another Anecdote of General Houston 352 Copy of Letter by J. W. Fannin, a few days before his capture 353 Dawson and Sims 354 Texas Independence 355 Lafitte n r-6 Meteorology of Texas ocg Texan Scenery o -« The Wild Man of the Woods 36) The Mothers of Texas 366 Adventures of a Young Texan 365 The Soldier's Sweet Home y.. Up ! Men of Texas ,■,,. Leave it ! Ah no — the land is our own CONTENTS.

XI PAGE My Childhood's Home 377 The Tolling Bell 378 Lament for a Stolen " Pet " 380 Reply to a Lament for a Stolen Pet 382 Laurel and Cypress. 38° The Texas Soldier's Address to his Flag 387 I'm thinking of the Soldier 388 Always New 389 To my Sleeping Wife 390 The Marble Lily 392 Texan Hymn 395 Ode to San Jacinto 39° Lone Star of the South ! 398 Texas, our Home 4°° Love and Latin 4°3 The Last Tear I shed 404 Naval Heroes 4°5 Texan Song of Liberty 406 The Lorie Star of Texas 4°7 A Garnered Memory 408 An Escape from the Alamo 4TO The Writing on the Wall 413 The Mier Prisoner's Lament 4*7 The Texas Ranger 4l8 On the Death of David Crockett 4*9 My Early Days 420 The Girl with the Calico Dress 421 Mary 422 Resurgam s 423 Little Babies ! 424 Lines -in Memory of Midshipman A. J. Bryant 426 Sunbeams 42° The Best 428 The Night before the Wedding 430 Swedish Poetry— The Viking '. 432 Not Dead, but gone before 43° The Texan's Song of Liberty 437 The Golden Opportunity 438 Epitaph of the Texas Dead 440 Boys, Rub your Steels 440 Character of David G Burnet 441 Texas Minerals 442 Outline of the leading Characteristics of Texas 4 17 Wichita and Wilbarger Counties 461 Unsettled Regions on the Western Limits of Texas and to the Pacific Railroad to Guaymas, etc 4 4 The Pan-handle of Texas ' 468 Game in Texas CONTENTS.

XII PAGE Same Subject — Continued 479 The Yellow Fever in Texas in 1867 487 Geological Resources of Texas 488 The Mineral Resources of Texas ; 493 The Coal-Bed of Texas 49s Climatology of Texas 5°2 The Migratory Locust in Texas 511 The Mesquit Tree , 512 Constitutional Government in Texas ' 5*5 Extract from the Address of Honorable Ashbel Smith to the Veteran Association 553 PART IY. STATISTICAL Austin's Original Three Hundred 557 List of all the Men in the Texas Army as the Battle of San Jacinto 562 List of the Officers and Men under Command of Colonel J. W. Fannin 569 Constitution of the Texas Veteran Association 574 Texas Necrology 578 List of Old Texans who have died and been killed by Mexicans and Indians from 1828 to 1874 580 Names of Veterans — First Class 5S5 Second Class 620 The General Consultation 633 Houston's First Administration » 636 Lamar's Administration , 636 1 .

Houston's Second Administration 63 7 Anson Jones' Administration 637 Prominent Officials of the Republic- Judges of the District Court 638 District-Attorneys - 638 Speakers of the House of Representatives 639 Chief Clerks of the House 639 Presidents, pro tern., of the Senate 639 Secretaries of the Senate 639

Appendix

. James W. Fannin — Commission, Orders, and Correspondence ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Stephen H. Austin Frontispiece Mission of San Jose 18 Indian Charge 35 First Sunday School in Texas 75 Plan of Battle of San Jacinto 94 Houston and Santa Anna 96 Storming of the Alamo 109 Monument to the Heroes of the Alamo 112 Ground Plan of the Alamo 115 House in which First Congress met 119 The Capitol at Austin 120 Texas Indians 132 Mrs. Eberly Firing off Cannon 143 Thomas J. Rusk '...: 155 Santa Anna 189 Thomas F. McKinney 206 Mirabeau B. Lamar 226 Houston pierced by an Arrow 255 Thomas William Ward 272 Sterling C. Robertson 28S Ellis P. Bean 322 Anson Jones 339 Duval drawing a Pig through the Floor 371 General Sam Houston 397 David Crockett 4'9 David G. Burnett 441 Houston issuing Orders 464 Cathedral at Mexico 500 R. M. Williamson 524 Edward Burleson 565 Tom Green 584 Sidney Sherman 600 Colonel John Caldwell