The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, July 1951 - April, 1952 Page: 256
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
I intend making application for the benefit of said Act and desire a
certificate from you as knowing me to be in the said service for
which I would feel ever grateful. I got all the lands promised us and
still own them.
Very truly
EMANUEL MEISENHETTER
JOSEPH CUMMINGS TO COLONEL ROGERS
Shelbyville, Indiana, June 26, 1883
Dr. Rogers. Dear Sir:
I address you a few lines to know if you can still indetifi me. The
act of Legislators of Texas has given a claim of 1,28o acres to all
soldiers of 1836 and 37. I was a volunteer under Capt. Chas. Cole-
rick28 and you was my Colonel. You are the only living person I knew
of new that was there the time I was. You sighn in 1855 some papers
for me but they have got mislaid. I want to come down soon if you
can indentif me and get you to sighn some more papers for me so I
can get my claim as I never got anything there for my service but
some Texas scrip. I want to call to your memory things so you will
know that I was with you. I was on guard the morning that Genl.
Felix Huston and Johnson faught their dulle and heard ever shot
fired. Do you know who issued 3 cases of brandy out and the cheering
when reported that Huston wounded Johnston.29 Both were good
officers and do you remember the shooting of Colonel Teal in his tent
by some of his own men.80 The one that done it was supposed was
28Captain Colerick organized a company of volunteer cavalry for the army of
Texas at Mount Vernon, Ohio, on August 22, 1836, to serve for a period of nine
months. On December 31, 1836, this company, known as the "Mount Vernon
Volunteers," was stationed at Camp Independence and was temporarily attached
to Colonel Rogers' regiment.
29George W. Morgan, younger brother of Thomas J. Morgan who was at that
time a captain, was at Camp Independence when the duel was fought, and in his
reminiscences published years later he told of the distribution of the spirits: "Early
in the morning of the fight, whiskey made its appearance in the camp, and kettles
filled with it were passed from tent to tent. Where it came from I do not know.
I not only believe, however, but I am morally certain that Felix Huston was
wholly ignorant of the fact. Nevertheless had Huston been killed, and Johnston
survived the encounter, the latter would never have lived long enough to die at
Shiloh; and the chances are that this narrative would never have been written,
for my gallant brother and his men would have stood by Johnston and I would
have died or lived with them."-George W. Morgan, "Extracts from the Rem-
iniscences of General Morgan," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXX, 193.
soHenry Teal commanded a company of regulars in General Houston's army but
because of illness did not participate in the Battle of San Jacinto. On August 26,
1836, he was promoted to the rank of major. On the night of May 5, 1837, during
a terrific rainstorm, while in command of a battalion of 1st Regiment of Infantry,
under Colonel Edwin Morehouse, Teal was shot and killed by an assassin as he
slept in his tent at Camp Independence. The identity of the murderer was not
known for years. On January io, 1855, John Hamilton Schultz was convicted of256
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