The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 148
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
The writer feels that she can not better continue this life-story
than by quoting here at some length from a diary kept by her
father, Miles S., which will show how now began that comradeship
so beautiful and touching in its devotion between father and son,
hitherto strangers to each other. The diary says: "Reporting at
headquarters at Houston for duty, June 5, 1838, father was by
General Barnard E. Bee, quartermaster general, instructed to pro-
ceed to Fort Houston, San Bernard, Texana, Gonzales, and San
Antonio, to collect and preserve the scattered military stores, have
the beeves and army horses taken care of, and to report the condi-
tion of the frontier. Being entitled to a clerk and assistant, he
took me with him to act in that capacity. On our route we went
to Samuel Damon's, at the Mound, six miles northwest of Col-
umbia; his house was the repository of some of father's quarter-
master's account books and the Texas 'Star Brand' that he had
made for the cavalry horses. Proceeding to the San Bernard, we
examined the horses in the care of Mr. Anders and sent them to
headquarters; visited Captain McFarland's command at the old
station, and issued a requisition for stores for some of his sick
men.1 Went by Texana and the La Vaca settlements to Gonzales.
A few of the families who had survived the 'Runaway Scrape' of
April, 1836, were returning and rebuilding their old burned
homes; they knew father well, and begged him to use his influence
at headquarters to have some troops sent for the protection of this
frontier. Reporting from San Antonio, where we found a few
military stores and only about twenty Americans, we were ordered
to remain there for the present. Returning to Houston, we were
received with consideration by General Houston, and by special
invitation we both attended his levee on December 7, 1838. We
were authorized to procure wagons, teams, beef, corn and comis-
sary stores for the marching of two companies of troops from head-
quarters at Houston for the protection of the Gonzales and San
Antonio frontier."
'The diary also mentions much privation and sickness among the troops
in the summer of 1838-and the satisfaction felt by Major Bennet when
he was able, at the request of Dr. Ewing, Surgeon General, to furnish a
barrel of vinegar for the camps at "Old Station" on the San Bernard.
The vinegar was a substitute for lemons in treating those suffering from
fever.148
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