The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, July 1926 - April, 1927 Page: 199
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Extracts from the Reminiscence's of General Morgan 199
"Bell's Landing," take charge of some recruits, and proceed to
Velasco, where an additional number of men would be turned
over to me by Captain Snell of that post, when, with my com-
mand, I was to continue on to Fort Travis on Galveston Island.
I fear I did not thank the President for my promotion, but took
it as a matter of course-and yet-I could not have behaved very
badly, for ever afterwards Sam Houston remained my friend"--
General Morgan's narrative breaks off abruptly at this point
and the writer will have to insert extracts from other fragments
sc as to continue the story of this most adventurous life.
It seems that a mutinous epidemic broke out in the Army of the
Republic which spread to every post in Texas. After the affair
at Camp Independence, "Velasco" next suffered; Lieut. Sprowl
joined the mutineers and was shot and instantly killed by Captain
Snell, commanding the garrison. There were two companies at
Galveston under the command of Lieut. Col. Lynch, the disease
rext attacked them. The men had never been paid, for Texas had
no money. The soldiers had no proper food, having lived on fresh
fish for three weeks at a time; their clothing was in rags. These
privations combined with inaction, caused the demoralization of
the army.
Lieutenant Berth, who had been a Seargent in the United States
Army, was Adjutant of the Post. He was as cold and precise as
a machine, and the soldiers detested him. He received a warning
not to sleep in his quarters, and that night a shell exploded under
his bed, blowing it to pieces. Berth at the time lay concealed in
the high grass-the next day he fled from the Island.
Adam Glendenen, young Morgan's Captain, was very unpopular.
He was young, haughty, and brave. A note was sent to him de-
manding that he leave the Island. He treated it with contempt.
The next night while Glendenen and Morgan were in their quar-
ters, built of sand sod, knotted together by the roots of grass,
Herculano, a Mexican servant, came running in, exclaiming, "The
soldiers! The soldiers !"
Seizing their swords the young officers rushed out and found
three soldiers loading a cannon which was pointed at their sand-
sod hut, and not fifteen paces from it. They rushed toward the
gun, and the would be assassins took flight in the tall prairie
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