Letters and Diaries

Title -   Dr. Grayson M. Prevost to Andrew M. Prevost from Camargo. July 28, 1846

Date -   July 28, 1846

Publication Information -   Unpublished, n.p., July 28, 1846

Format -   Letters (correspondence)

Collection -   Dr. Grayson M. Prevost papers, 1846-1849. The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Special Collections.

Call Number -   AR547-1-40

Description -   Enclosed in this letter is an extract of General Order No. 2 directing Prevost for duty at Ciudad Mier. He was the only medical officer in an eighty-man detachment sent twenty-five miles from Camargo. Prevost relates how a party of Texas Rangers on a scouting expedition had their horses stolen by the Comanche when the Texans neglected to observe normal military security at night.