Henry E. McCulloch to McArdle, January 14, 1891
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Handbook of Texas article on Ben McCulloch
Handbook of Texas article on Henry E. McCulloch
Corpus Christi Jany 14, 91
H. A. McArdle Esq
My Dr Sir
Yours of 10th at hand and Contents
noted. I think you are correct about there
being a picture prepared for sale of the Surrender
of Santa Anna at San Jacinto and I know that it
is not yours.
I do not know the exact character of
my brothers clothing at the time of the battle of San
Jacinto, but as he had only been in Texas since
the previous November I suppose he was wear-
ing some of the homespun clothes (Brown or gray
mexia) [?] which our Mother made for him in Tennessee
and I [am] rather inclined to think he wore the mexia [?]
as it was spring time and they were lighter
than the brown. When we seperated [sic] at Nacog-
doches in November 1835 he wore no whiskers
but he may have trimmed them out that winter
as he had short whiskers all over his face when
he returned to Tenn the winter of 1836. His hair
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Henry E. McCulloch to McArdle, January 14, 1891, The Battle of San Jacinto Notebook, The McArdle Notebooks, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.