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much later date and then subsequently taken to Camargo for some
celebration, winding up at the police station of that border town, where
it hung on a wall for many years until acquired by Simpson. It was cer-
tainly not known to the Texans who fought in the Mexican War in
northern Mexico.
In conclusion, one should not overlook the fact that there were other
instances in 1839-1840 when the Texas Lone Star flag appeared on
the Rio Grande and in northern Mexico. As previously mentioned,
Colonel Reuben Ross and a company of Texan volunteers had marched
to the Rio Grande in September, 1839, to aid the Mexican Federalists,
believing that the best way to protect the western frontier of Texas
from marauding Mexican bands was to cross the Rio Grande and levy
war upon the authorities responsible for the banditti raids. Although
General Antonio Canales objected to his Texan allies' operating below
the Rio Grande under the Texas flag, Ross did not give the flag up.
After Canales abandoned the siege of Matamoros, Ross and about fifty
of his men returned to Texas."1 Surely he brought back his Texas Lone
Star flag.
Others who led companies of Texans in the Federalist campaigns
were Lieutenant Colonel William S. Fisher, who marched from his post
at Tenoxtitln with 200 men to join the Federalist service and found
himself dismissed from the Texas Army. Colonel Samuel W. Jordan
with 1 lo men, and Colonel Juan N. Seguin, with 170 Anglo-Americans,
went to the Rio Grande and beyond. All of these units carried Texas
Lone Star flags into Northern Mexico and operated under them, much
to the objection of their Mexican Federalist allies, who thought that the
Texan flag hurt their cause among Mexicans and gave the Centralists a
good opportunity to exploit Mexican nationalism.42 There is no record
that any of these Texan units left their Texas flag in Mexico when they
returned home.
The flag at the Star of the Republic Museum today is the only known
official Lone Star flag of the Republic of Texas of the period 1839-
1846. In the preparation of this article, the author has made every
effort, with the help of many responsible and knowledgeable individu-
als, to locate other such Lone Star flags of the 1839-1846 period and to
find out how, where, and by whom such flags were made and dis-
tributed. It is the author's conclusion that there was no common source
of manufacture and distribution and that the number of flags
41Nance, After San Jacnto, 235-236
42Ibid., 223-224, 236-237.556
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