1836 AUGUSTA GA STAMPLESS LETTER GEORGIA MILITARY TEXAS REVOLUTION !

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1836 AUGUSTA GA, AMELIA GLASCOCK TO FRIEND MISS ELIZA A DALY IN COLUMBUS GA, NOT POSTMARKED BUT HAND DELIVERED WITH MANUSCRIPT "ATTENTION MR MANN," GREAT CONTENT MENTIONS "THE VOLUNTEERS HAVE ALL RETURNED SAFE AND SOUND, I ASSURE YOU I WISHED FOR YOU TO ASSIST IN OUR REJOICING, THEY WERE THE BLACKEST LOOKING MORTALS I EVER LOOKED AT AFTER ...... HIS CAPT MET HIM IN THE STREET AND DID NOT KNOW HIM, LOUIS LOOKED MUCH BETTER THEN WHEN HE WENT AWAY, HE IS VERY ANXIOUS TO SEE YOU, ETC, ETC.SEE PHOTOS !!! NO RESERVE, SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $3.00 IN USA, OR $15.00 FOREIGN. I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY. CHECK MY VERY HIGH FEEDBACK !!!!! -- GEORGIA BATTALION . The Georgia Battalion of Permanent Volunteers, which became part of James W. Fannin 's provisional regiment in the Goliad Campaign of 1836 , occupies a unique position in the Texas Revolution , since Georgia was possibly the only state in the Union to supply arms during the conflict from its state arsenal to a Texas volunteer force. The battalion was organized by its commander, William Ward , in Macon, Georgia, after a town meeting on November 12, 1835. With the aid of Dr. Robert Collins, Ward enlisted about 120 men from Macon, Milledgeville, and Columbus, Georgia, formed them into three companies, and armed, supplied, and transported the unit to Texas at personal expense and with the aid of the Georgia arsenal. The journey to Texas brought the unit through Knoxville, Georgia, where Joanna Troutman presented the soldiers with a Lone Star flag bearing the mottoes, " Ubi Libertas habitat, ibi nostra patria est " ("Where Liberty dwells, there is our fatherland"), and "Liberty or Death" ( see FLAGS OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION ). Ward continued recruiting volunteers along the way to New Orleans until the battalion numbered about 220 men. On December 20, 1835, the unit landed at Velasco, Texas, where Ward and his men presented their service to Fannin on December 23.The Georgia Battalion was officially organized and its officers elected upon its arrival at Refugio on February 14, 1836. By then, Isaac Ticknor's company of Montgomery, Alabama, "Greys" (not to be confused with the Mobile Grays ) had been added to the unit. Attached to Ticknor's company was Luis Guerra's artillery company, a remnant of Mexía's expedition . The Georgia Battalion accompanied Fannin to Goliad, where Amon B. King 's Kentucky volunteers also became part of the force, but Guerra's artillerymen, not wishing to fight their own country, departed and later joined the Mexican army. At Goliad, Fannin reorganized his provisional regiment, garrisoned at Fort Defiance (La Bahía qv ), into two battalions-the First, or Georgia Battalion, and the Second, or LaFayette Battalion. The former included the five companies of Amon King, Isaac Ticknor, Uriah Irwin Bullock, James C. Winn, and William A. O. Wadsworth, with Warren J. Mitchell serving as battalion major. Joseph M. Chadwick , later Fannin's adjutant general, was sergeant major, and John Sowers Brooks , later Fannin's aide-de-camp, became battalion adjutant. William Ward was elected lieutenant colonel of the regiment, the ranking officer on Fannin's staff.Acting as commander in chief of the Texas army from February 12 to March 12, 1836, Fannin fortified La Bahía against attack from the encroaching Mexican army, which was expected almost daily. After he removed the Texas force from Refugio to Goliad, Fannin sent King and about thirty men back to Refugio on March 10 to aid settlers in their retreat to Goliad. King, however, was forced to retreat into Nuestra Señora del Refugio Mission when his men confronted Carlos de la Garza 's rancheros, serving as advance forces of Mexican general José de Urrea 's army. Upon receiving King's request for relief, Fannin dispatched Ward and about 120 men of the Georgia Battalion to King's aid on March 12, a move that disastrously split his forces.Although Ward and the Georgia Battalion successfully reinforced King, both commanders unwisely elected not to return directly to Goliad, a d... read more

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