The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 42, July 1938 - April, 1939 Page: 378
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but feel the importance of it as to its effect on the character of
the enlisted men as a restraining power.
In the British service there is a savings bank, and I take the
liberty to refer you to Military Annals published at London in
1846, or some other work in which the subject is treated & where
the authority of the Crown is given for such an institution.
Very Respectfully
I am your Obt St.
(Signed) Jos. K. F. MANSFIELD
Col & Inspector Genl
U. S. A.
COPY OF A LETTER TO COL A.S.JOHNSON COMDG
DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS.
City of Austin Texas.
18th August 1856.
Col. A. S. Johnson
U. S. A. Commanding Dept Texas.
Sir.
I am about to leave the Dept of Texas, now under your com-
mand. In the course of my inspection I have found the posts in
a good state of discipline; and at some of them the troops instructed
in every branch of the arm to which they belong. But it is my
opinion that the excessive labour in Extra Duty, and on scouts,
have prevented that progress in instruction which the officers in
command of the different posts have been anxious to bring about.
I have also to remark that the Troops have been extremely exposed
to the burning sun on the Rio Grande, for instance at McIntosh
& Duncan, where they have not been allowed by their own labour to
cut posts & make shades & elevate their tents, in as much as the
population on that river expect pay for all trees & stakes cut, and
your predecessor prohibited any expenditure for the temporary
accommodation of the Troops.-Horses of the mounted men have
been much exposed without shades. I will further remark at
Chadbourne & Camp Cooper. There is no lumber for coffins, and
at each of these posts an Officer has been burried in a box made
up of gun chests & old bacon boxes & in two instances I was witness
to the same description of coffins.378
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