A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . Map showing disputed Terkitoby betweenNueces River and Rio , 1846. 132 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period PeriodOF Statehood 1846 to iti6i Nothinjj more than a brief statement of the part Texan troopstook in it will be attempted. On May 9, 1846, the Texas legis-lature granted Governor Henderson leave of absence to takecommand of all the Texan troops in the army. Prior to thisPresident Polk had offered to Sam Houston and Thomas J. Ruskcommissions as major-generals in the United States army, which. Map of General
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . Map showing disputed Terkitoby betweenNueces River and Rio , 1846. 132 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period PeriodOF Statehood 1846 to iti6i Nothinjj more than a brief statement of the part Texan troopstook in it will be attempted. On May 9, 1846, the Texas legis-lature granted Governor Henderson leave of absence to takecommand of all the Texan troops in the army. Prior to thisPresident Polk had offered to Sam Houston and Thomas J. Ruskcommissions as major-generals in the United States army, which. Map of General Taylors Campaign. Texas officersand troops inthe MeiticanWar they declined on account of their duties in the Senate. Gov-ernor Henderson at once joined the army, and commanded theTexan soldiers for the first year of the war, with the rank ofmajor-general. On his staff were M. B. Lamar, Edward Bur-leson, Henry L. Kinney, and Edward Clark. Texas contributedto this war, first and last, about eight thousand men. The firsttroops to arrive in response to General Taylors call was a regi-ment of infantry under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, in whichAugust Buchel commanded a German company. Thencame a regiment of mounted men under Colonel JohnC. Hays, in which Samuel H. Walker was afterwardslieutenant-colonel and Michel Chevallie was McCulloch also had a company of scouts attachedto this regiment. Next to join was Colonel GeorgeT. Woods mounted regiment, in which William was major and P. Hansborough Bell was anofficer. After the battle of Monterey there was a
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