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General J. B. Magruder
By Judy C. Ware 2016
The following resolution of thanks
to the major-general commanding and those under his command was passed by both
Houses of the Texas Legislature and approved on March 6, 1863.
JOINT
RESOLUTION of thanks to General J. B. Magruder and others.
RESOLUTION
1. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Texas. That the thanks of
the Legislature are hereby tendered to General J. B. Magruder and the officers
and men under his command for the brilliant victory which they gained over the
Federalists at Galveston on the 1st of January last. To Major O. M. Watkins and
the officers and men under his command for their gallant conduct at Sabine Pass
and the recapture of that fort and capturing the blockading vessels of the
enemy; and to Major Daniel Shea and the officers and men under his command for
their brave defense of the town of Lavaca; and to Major Hobby and the officers
and soldiers under his command for the repulse of the enemy's attack on Corpus
Christi, the commencement of our success on the Texas coast; and to Captains
Ireland and Ware and the officers and soldiers under their command for their
exploit in the capture of Captain Kittredge and his men near Corpus Christi; and
to Captains Ireland and Willke and the officers and soldiers under their command
for their good conduct in defeating the enemy's attempt to capture one of our
vessels and in capturing his barges in the Bay of Corpus Christi; and to Capts.
Santos Benavides and Refugio Benavides and the officers and men under their
command for their vigilance, energy, and gallantry in pursuing and chastising
the banditti infesting the Rio Grande frontier.
RESOLUTION
2. That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to
General J. B. Magruder and the other officers mentioned, with the request that
they make them known to the officers and men under their command.
Approved
March 6, 1863.
THE STATE OF
TEXAS,
Department
of State:
I, R. J.
Townes, Secretary of State of the State of Texas, do hereby certify the above to
be a true and correct copy of the original joint resolution as approved by the
Governor, now on file in this department.
In testimony
whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the State
Department to be affixed, at Austin, this 12th March, 1863.
[SEAL.]
R. J.
TOWNES,
Secretary of
State.
These
resolutions will on the day of their reception be read at the head of every
regiment, battalion, and unattached company in the district.
By order of
Major-General Magruder:
STEPHEN D. YANCEY, Acting Assistant
Adjutant-General.
March 6, 1863.
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