Houston, writing to Governor Smith, December 30, 1835, enclosed muster rolls for the companies of Captains Wyatt and King, and said, “I have had much difficulty in getting them to volunteer for any definite period. But the ordinance left a discretion with me to accept their services for such time as I `might think the good of the service required.' I did think it necessary to specify some certain time, and that time, I conceived, ought not to be less than three months; if so it would be burdensome to the country without corresponding benefit. I think they will eventually all volunteer for during the war.”—Yoakum, II 456.
