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had been established in Mexico by Santa Anna. He said the flag
was carried by Ensign James Ferguson, second lieutenant, at the
head of the company, until Austin superseded John W. Moore at
Gonzales7
Austin requested that the use of the flag be discontinued, that,
if it should be taken into San Antonio, the commander there
would look upon it as a revolutionary flag. So, it was not again
unfurled, and was lost sight of in the after events of the war.
However, after the fall of the Alamo, a flag was found in the
fort, which excited the following comment from the Mexican Com-
mander, Santa Anna. In a letter to Secretary of War Tornel,
March 6, 1836, he says, "The bearer takes with him one of the
flags of the enemy's battalions, captured, which shows that they
came from the United States of the North."
We have seen that the two companies organized in Harris County
carried flags of original design expressing the political sentiments
of their respective membership, and it is equally plain that the
naval flag8 designed by Burnet at a later date strongly symbolized
the hope of the Texans, for, how simple and easy would have been
the blending of its single star and thirteen stripes into the national
standard of the United States. When those hopes were disap-
pointed, and it was afterwards found advisable to contrive another
emblem of a design distinctive enough not to be readily blended
with that of any other nation, it was in Harris County that this
emblem was designed and adopted. The coincidence of resem-
blance between the Harrisburg flag and that finally adopted for
the Republic of Texas in colors, differing, as they do in method
'Mrs. Dodson died in Grimes county in 1848. She was the daughter
of Edwin and Elizabeth Bradley who moved from Kentucky to Texas in
1822 and settled on the 'Brazos river in Brazoria county. They were
among the first of "the old three hundred" of Austin's 'Colony.
"When the provisional government of which he was the head retreated
from Washington to 'Harrisburg, Prersident Burnet and others of his
cabinet were at the home of Mrs. Jane Harris, and, while there, Burnet
devised the naval flag for Texas, which consisted of thirteen stripes, al-
ternate red and white, like the United States flag, with a single white
star in a blue field. This flag was adopted by the congress at Columbia
in the fall of 1836, and continued in use until the adoption of the
national standard .by the third congress of the Republic of Texas as-
sembled at Houston December 27, 1838. The flag was approved January
25, 1839.274
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