Edwin W. Moore to Louis P. Cooke, December 24, 1841 - Page 16
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through Edward Thornton Captain of the Main Top on board
this Ship, who fortunately got drunk. I believe it was
arranged while the three vessels were lashed together
in tow up the river, although nothing could be elicited
to convict others, by the Court Martial, which I
immediately convened on board the Zavala to try Thorn-
ton on Charges prefered [sic] against him by Lieut D.H. Crisp
first Lieutenant of this Ship. The Court was in session
eight days, and as the proceedings are voluminous, I have
not yet been able to get through them, and act upon
the finding of the Court, so as to send the whole to
the Department by the San-Bernard, as I wished
to do. The Court has sentenced him to the punishment
of Death, and in consequence of his heretofore good con-
duct, recommend him to mercy, and also recommend that
he should be given two hundred lashes with the cats.
On the ____ the San-Bernard sailed for the Bar,
I expecting to follow in two or three days.
A day or two previous to the expiration of the
twenty days, I called on Genl Anaya, to know if the money
was ready[.] [H]e assured me that he had been doing every-thing
that he could to raise money, and had raised but little, and
wished to know how little I could possibly do with, for
the present, (as I had told him that I could not remain
more than three days longer) to which I replied that ten
thousand more, was the best that I could do with.
[H]e said that he would see the Provisional Govr
(who by this time had been elected,) and give me an
answer that night; which he did, and which was, that
the Governor had every disposition to assist him, but
the amount could not be raised, in less than four days,
when I told him that I would of course wait anoth-
er day. In four days dropped the Zavala alongside
and got ready to tow down the River[.] [H]earing nothing
from the Genl, the next day I called on him, when he
offered
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Edwin W. Moore to Louis P. Cooke, December 24, 1841. Texas Navy Papers, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.