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| MEMORIES (poetry) |
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SCRAPS of EARLY TEXAS
HISTORY -
- Nine Periods of Texas History;
- What Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Clay thought of Texas;
- Beginning of the Struggle;
- Col. Austin justifies the people of Texas;
- First Collision at Gonzales;
- Texans march on San Antonio;
- Battle of Concepcion;
- The Grass Fight;
- Surrender of San Antonion to the victorious Texans, with 1400 men, 21
pieces of artillery, 500 muskets,
ammunition, clothing, etc.;
- Santa Anna, with 7,500 men, invades Texas;
- he besieges San Antonio;
- the brae garrison answers his summons to surrender by a cannon-shot of
defiance;
- Personal Reminiscences of the author during this period;
- her voyage from New Orleans to the town of Matagorda;
- Effect of the news of the Fall of the Alamo on the inhabitants;
- Preparations for Flight;
- General Flight of the Inhabitants;
- The Author arrives at Sabine Bay and makes a temporary sojourn at
Beaumont;
- Incidents of the voyage;
- Life at Beaumont;
- Good News;
- March of the Army of the Coast;
- Battle of San Jacinto and capture of Santa Anna;
- Wild Rejoicings;
- The Author attempts going the Galveston by Water, but failing, concludes
to try a land voyage to the same point;
- Personal Experience by the Way;
- Safe arrival at Galveston and kind reception;
- Voyage to the Mouth of the Brazos on a Texan man-of-war;
- Experiences of a Twenty-five mile Land Journey;
- Safe Arrival at Home
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CHAPTER I. -
- Contains a few of the author's personal reminiscences of fifty years
ago, besides something introductory to the
narrative that follows
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28-39 |
CHAPTER II. -
- Departure of the author and her husband, with a company of sixty
immigrants, for Texas; down the Alleghany
river, the Ohio, and the Mississippi to New
Orleans
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30-33 |
CHAPTER III. -
- New Orleans during the Christmas Holidays of 1828;
- a correction;
- the trip of the schooner Little Zoe;
- baffling wind prolong the voyage;
- short allowance fo water and provisions;
- the vessel springs a leak;
- a bunck of sea-weed kindly fills up the hole and stops the leak;
- safe arrival at last in Arransas harbor
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CHAPTER V. -
- Alarm on board the vessel;
- the hunting party make its appearance and the Indians decamp;
- renewal of the voyage and arrival at Matagorda Bay in 1829;
- something more about the Indians, their customs, manners, etc.
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CHAPTER VI. -
- Impressions of the author and a few general reflections on the condition
of society in the new country
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43-45 |
CHAPTER VII. -
- The military post;
- who occupied it;
- other buildings;
- Kindness of the inhabitants to the new-comers;
- the author commences to teach both week-day and Sunday school;
- first graves at Matagorda
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CHAPTER VIII. -
- Some unwritten History;
- condition of affairs prior to the Texas Revolution;
- capture of a fort by Texans at the mouth of the Brazos river;
- arrival of a Mexican feet
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CHAPTER IX. -
- Additional narrative of the voyage from New Orleans to Matagorda;
- description of the author's new home
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50-52 |
CHAPTER X. -
- How the Mexicans compare with the Anglo-Americans;
- scraps of early events in the revolutionary struggle and personal
recollections of the author
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CHAPTER XI. -
- Capture of La Bahia;
- Benjamin Milam;
- massacre of Colonel Fannin and his men;
- the Alamo butchery;
- flight of the inhabitants
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CHAPTER XII. -
- Incidents of a voyage made by the author in 1835 from New Orleans to New
York
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56-59 |
LOOKING FOR THE CHURCH -
- Dialogue with an imaginary niece - 60-82
- Essays - 83-87
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RESULT OF THEOLOGY FOUND ON
TEXAS COASTS
- What Can I Do? (Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4) - 88-81
- Thoughts on Family, Church and State - 91-93
- Extracts from Letters - 93-96
- On Music (Nos. 1 and 2) - 96-99
- Letter to my God-children - 99-102
- Veterans of Texas - 102-103
- To a Churchwoman whose Children had Joined the Methodists - 105-107
- Extracts of Letters to a Methodist - 107-112
- Letter to a Baptist Sister - 113-119
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SCRAPS OF THEOLOGY FOUND ON
THE COAST OF TEXAS -
- John Wesley's Tract - 120-123
- Communicated - 123-126
- What Mr. Charles Wesley says - 126-127
- Extracts from Dr. Coke's Letters to Bishops White and Seabury - 127-131
- Extract of a Letter from Dr. Coke to William Wilberforce - 131-132
- Eminent Men on the Book of Common Prayer - 132-133
- An Incident of the Texas Revolution - 134
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APPENDIX -
- Compiled from the writings of field notes of E. R. Wightman, first
Surveyor of the Colony of Col. Stephen F.
Austin
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