The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911 Page: 127
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The City of Austin from 1839 to 1865.
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This was done, the Indians fled and Coleman escaped. Froissart
in the days of old never recorded a more chivalrous act.
It was said in 1843 during the archive troubles that but five
women remained at one time in Austin.1 But enough men re-
mained, backed by the settlers on the upper Colorado, to success-
fully defy the rest of the Republic, and keep the archives.
After the Mexican War of 1846 the United States established
for several years the headquarters of the military department in
Austin. But few troops were ever kept there, for they were posted
at the forts on the frontier built by the United States. The
United States Arsenal was where a public schoolhouse now stands
on the block marked "Armory," it being the southeast corner block
of the original town.
One of the old landmarks was the "Harney cottage." General
Harney of the United States army in 1847, after Texas was
annexed to the United States, built a residence on a large outlot
which embraced the ground covered now by the residences of Mr.
Scarbrough, the Driskill residence, Grace Hall, and Bishop Kin-
solving. A long row of stables extended east from Harney's resi-
dence to about where Grace Hall now is. There Robert E. Lee,
Joseph E. Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston, Generals Walker
and Hood (then captains) stabled their horses, when they lodged
with Harney, for all of them served on the Texas frontier after
the war of 1846. After 1850 the headquarters were removed to
San Antonio. As late as 1852 there was not a house between
the Harney cottage and where our Capitol building stands and
but four residences between the Harney cottage and George-
town, viz., Enoch Johnson, Nelson Merrill, McKinzie, and a
house at the crossing of the creek where old Round Rock was
built.
On the ground just in the rear of the present city hall, Presi-
dent Anson Jones delivered in front of the Old Capitol his last
address. He closed it with the remark, "The Republic of Texas
is no more" and, lowering the flag of Texas, hoisted that of the
United States. Then Governor J. Pinckney Henderson delivered
his inaugural address, Captain James G. Swisher and Morgan
Hamilton both told me that the hillside was covered with people,
and that many a strong man wept to see the Lone Star flag go
1Darlington now states it, and I heard it from other old settlers.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911, periodical, 1911; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101054/m1/141/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.