The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 229
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The Texan Revolutionary Army.
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chief (November 12)1 and on the 14th the consultation adjourned,
to be succeeded by the provisional government that it had created.
2. The Organization of the Army.
The Militia.-In his first message to the council, on November
16, Governor Smith, among other recommendations, urged haste
in the organization of the militia. The council thereupon in-
structed the military committee to consider the object of the con-
sultation in ordering an election of militia officers in December.
The ideas of the committee were embodied in an ordinance that
was passed November 25. It provided that the council should ap-
point in each municipality three commissioners to divide the dis-
trict into militia precincts, which were to conform as nearly as pos-
sible with those already existing, and to choose election judges for
each precinct. Officers were to be elected and companies formed as
required by the plan of the consultation. Muster days were fixed
for company, battalion, regimental, and brigade drill on the first
Saturday in April, May, September, and October, respectively.
Commissioners for sixteen municipalities were elected November
26, those for Matagorda were appointed the next day, and others
for San Patricio and Sabine later. The governor was commander-
in-chief of the militia, and was allowed a staff of four aids with
the rank of colonel.2 To what extent the organization of the
militia was effected is uncertain. Probably very little was done, for
about the time that the elections were to take place news spread
that the volunteers had begun the storming of Bexar and needed
reinforcements. Many prepared to hasten to their assistance, some
of the commissioners among them, and thus the organization was
delayed.'
'Journals of the Consultation, 36.
'Proceedings of the General Council, 14, 24, 43, 48-9, 56-8, 70, 148, 166;.
Ordinances and Decrees, 28-30.
'Thus Eli Mercer, writing to Governor Smith, December 16, said: "I
received your appointment authorizing me to assist in organizing the
militia of Austin. I have called a meeting of the board to attend to this,
but feel it my duty to join the army, which I shall do next Tuesday. I
recommend Mr. Menefee for my place in organizing the militia." Archives
of Texas, D. file 13, No. 1261.
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