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HENRY MILLARD, FORGOTTEN TEXIAN
About this time, Millard, not one to neglect his business opportunities
under any circumstances, formed another land partnership with Thomas
Huling and a transplanted Kentuckian named George W. Glasscock. This
partnership he named "Thomas B. Ruling & Co." Perhaps, remembering
his monetary problems back in the United States, he was wary of using his
own name on a partnership, because he never used it on any he formed after
he moved to Texas.
On February 18, Millard received urgent orders to forward his recruits
to Washington "as soon as practicable" from Houston, who although he
was having his problems with the recalcitrant General Council, was still mak-
ing his plans for the defense of Texas.37 Millard wrote to Huling from
Nacogdoches, "I understand Genl. H. has made one recruit and com-
menced a regular drill (hurrah for the army)."38
In the meantime, Millard served with Houston as commissioner to treat
with the Cherokee Indians, a potential threat to the Texian cause. They met
with Chief Bowles of the Cherokees and on February 23 negotiated a suc-
cessful treaty. Millard wrote Huling afterwards: "I have just returned from
the Indian Treaty which was arranged with them satisfactorily - they only
wanted their rights guaranteed to them which was done and they will enter
firmly into the cause of Texas."39 Unfortunately, the government later
refused to ratify the treaty.
Millard and a regular battalion of infantry joined the main body of
Houston's army sometime in late March, while it was camped on the
Brazos.40 In early April, Millard wrote to Huling from "Camp West of the
Brazos": "...attend to the Land business and buy all you can at low price
- now is the favorable time when the country is in such a panic about the
war." He mitigated this opportunistic advice in the next sentence by a
blatant, if slightly misplaced, vote of confidence in the Texian cause:
Tell Glasscock to pursue his purchases and fear not for the fate of
Texas we shall certainly prevent the Enemy from crossing the Brasos
37Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, The Writings of Sam Houston (Austin: The
University of Texas Press, 1943), Vol. IV, 17.
38Henry Millard to Thomas B. Huling, February 28, 1836, Papers of Thomas B. Huling,
Barker Texas History Center, Austin, Texas.
39Ibid.
40H. M. Henderson, "A Critical Analysis of the San Jacinto Campaign," Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, LIX (July 1955-April 1956), 347.Nov. 1985]
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