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Lt. Thos. Maclin,1o Judge Advocate and Recorder pro tem.
By order of
Brig. Genl. P. O. Heberta"
(signed) Charles M. Mason'2
Capt. A. A. A. Genl.
HeadQuarters Trans Miss. Dist.
South of the Red River,
San Antonio, Texas, July ist 1862
Special Order No. 7
I. Lt. Thomas Maclin C. S. A. is relieved from duty as Judge
Advocate and Recorder pro tem, on the. Military Commission now
in session at San Antonio.
II. Maj. E. F. Gray,?3 P. A. C. S. is appointed Judge Advocate and
Recorder of the Military Commission convened in accordance with
General Order No. 3, and will enter at once upon the discharge
of the duties.
By order of
Brig. Genl. P. O. Hebert
Chas. M. Mason
Capt. A. A. A. Genl.
San Antonio, July 2nd 1862.
The Court met pursuant to the foregoing orders:
Present,
"1Thomas Maclin, son of United States and later Confederate officer Sackfield
Maclin, was born in Tennessee about 1842. U. S. Eighth Census, 186o (Returns of
Schedule 1, Free Inhabitants, for Bexar County, Texas, microfilm, University of
Texas Library), 153-
11Paul O. H6bert was born in Louisiana in 1818 and graduated from the United
States Military Academy in 1840. In 1845, he left the army to become chief engi-
neer of Louisiana, but served as an officer in the Mexican War. He was governor of
Louisiana in the 1850's. In April, 1861, he was appointed commander of the District
of Louisiana, and in August commander of the Department of Texas. In November,
1862, he was relieved of that command but continued as an administrative officer
in the Trans-Mississippi through the remainder of the war. He then returned to
Louisiana where he died in 188o. Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone (eds.), Dic-
tionary of American Biography (22 vols.; New York, 1928-1958), VIII, 492-493.
"'Charles M. Mason was born in Georgia in 1812 and came to Texas in 1834.
He served in the battle of Gonzales, the siege of Bexar, and the battle of San
Jacinto during the Texas Revolution, and died at Gonzales in 1883. Sam H.
Dixon and Louis W. Kemp, The Heroes of San Jacinto (Houston, 1932), 101.
1SEdwin Fairfax Gray was born in Virginia in 1829 and moved to Texas in
1838. He served as a midshipman in the Texas Navy and graduated from the
United States Naval Academy in 1852. In 1858, he resigned his commission and
became Texas state engineer. Then in 186o, he became secretary and treasurer
of the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway Company. He returned to engineering
after the war and died in Houston in 1884. Walter Prescott Webb and H. Bailey
Carroll (eds.), The Handbook of Texas (2 vols.; Austin, 1952), I, 722-723.
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