Baker, Moseley, letter, 1844.

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Baker, Moseley, letter, 1844.

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Transcription made in 1894 of an 1844 letter intended for publication written by Baker (1802-1848), a captain in the Texan army at San Jacinto, to Sam Houston giving Baker's perspective on the battle and events leading up to it and highly unfavorable to Houston.

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Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

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Texas politician, soldier, and frontier hero. He was the first president of the Republic of Texas and served as a United States Senator for that state. From the description of Letter, ca. 1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699442 From the description of Letter, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435304 Sam Houston's colorful public life began with his heroic action during the war of 1812. He served as congressman and governor of Tennessee, spent years amon...

Baker, Moseley, 1802-1848

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Baker was a lawyer, editor, politician, Methodist minister in his lifetime. He was the leader of the Texas war party before the Revolution, opposed to the burning of San Felipe during the Revolution, and after the Revolution drew up charges of impeachment against Houston. He was a brigadier general in the Texas army in the 1839 campaign against the Indians and at the time of the Adrian Woll expedition and died of yellow fever in Houston in 1848. From the description of Baker, Moseley...