Archives of Texas, D, file 10, No. 945. F. W. Johnson for personal motives probably brought about this declaration. He transmitted the protest of the captains to the council with this postscript: “It is utterly impossible to induce the army now here to become auxiliaries to the regular army, or to subject them to the comr-in-chief,” though he adds, “they have willingly submitted to a system of due subordination and discipline as citizen soldiers.”
