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54 THE TEXAS GULF HISTORICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
to have Burnet arrested. Burnet, informed in advance of the attempt by
one of Millard's captains at San Jacinto, Amasa Turner, immediately con-
fronted Millard, who, realizing that the plot had failed and that his person
was now in some danger, left the area immediately.48
Burnet, pardonably enraged by the incident, wrote angrily to Rusk,
demanding Millard's dismissal from the army. Rusk, a friend of Millard's
who had been accused by some of acquiescing in the plot, replied politely
but evasively that the matter was outside his jurisdiction. After more angry
correspondence from Burnet (he called Millard an "officer of small rank
and less intelligence"), much of which Rusk never answered, the matter was
settled by Millard's suspension from the army.49
Before his departure "for a short sojourn among his acquaintances,"
Millard was given a "complimentary communication" by his fellow army
officers. They assured him "how much they respected his virtues as a man,
[his] courtesy as a gentleman - how much they admired his conduct as
an officer - the commingling of mildness, strictness and precision."
Prophetically, they addesI that he could "at least fall back where your
presence is always agreeable - where the pulse of each of your soldier friends
will beat gratefully while there is blood and breath to sustain it....," and
concluded with the hope that they could shortly welcome him back to camp.
This remarkable testimonial was signed by, among others, Albert Sidney
Johnston, Henry Karnes, James Collinsworth, Felix Huston, and, ironically,
by the former Capt. Amasa Turner, now holding Millard's old position of
Lieutenant Colonel Commandant First Infantry.50
In the meantime, however, Burnet and his cabinet, plagued by further
discontent and insubordination, had moved forward the proposed December
election to the first Monday in September. Millard, who had supported Henry
Smith for the presidency of the Republic, was undoubtedly delighted to learn
that, just eleven days before the election, Sam Houston declared his can-
didacy. He won by a huge majority. Millard's connection with Houston
undoubtedly worked to his advantage; his suspension from the army must
have been rescinded, because he was not formally discharged until December
16, 1836.
48"Amasa Turner's Account of the Texas Revolution," Texana, I, #2 (Spring, 1963), 78-83.
49John H. Jenkins, ed., Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (Austin: Presidial Press,
1973), pp. 75-75, 127-128, 147-148, 319-320, 374, 468.
50Papers of Christine Moor Sanders, a member of the Millard family.[Vol. XXI, No. 1
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