The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 4, July 1900 - April, 1901 Page: 260
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260 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
by the battle of San Jacinto, it was not until the settlement of the
Mexican War by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 that
MIexico formally renounced her claims to Texas.
DOCUMENTARY SELECTIONS RELATIVE TO THE CAMPAIGN.
I.
Houston's Report of the Battle.
[The original of this report has been lost, but numerous copies of it have
been published. The first was issued in pamphlet form from New Orleans
in 1836. Other copies may be found in Kennedy, II, 222-27; Yoakum, II,
498-502; Brown, II, 18-23; Dewees's Letters from Texas, 194-200; Linn's
Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas, 203-9; and probably elsewhere. A
Spanish translation occurs in Caro's Verdadera Idea, 106-13.]
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
SAN JACINTO, April 25, 1836.
To His Excellency David G. Burnet, President of the Republic of
Texas.
SIR: I regret extremely that my situation, since the battle of the
21st, has been such as to prevent my rendering you my official
report of the same, previous tc this time.
I have the honor to inform you, that on the evening of the 18th
inst., after a forced march of fifty-five miles, which was effected in
two days and a half, the army arrived opposite Harrisburg. That
evening a courier of the enemy was taken, from whom I learned
that General Santa Anna, with one division of choice troops, had
marched in the direction of Lynch's ferry on the San Jacinto,
burning Harrisburg as he passed down. The army was ordered to
be in readiness to march early .on the next morning. The main body
effected a crossing over Buffalo bayou, below Harrisburg, on the
morning of the 19th, having left the baggage, the sick, and a suffi-
cient camp guard in the rear. We continued the march throughout
the night, making but one halt in the prairie for a short time, and
without refreshments. At daylight we resumed the line of march,
and in a short distance our scouts encountered those of the enemy,
and we received information that General Santa Anna was at New
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