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Quitman faces vindictive gamblers during Texas Revolution
 (13th in a series)
In April 1836 John Quitman of Natchez was the captain of a company of volunteers fighting on the side of Gen. Sam Houston and Texas in the war against Mexico. Quitman led his men into San Augustine, located in east Texas about 12 miles west of the Sabine River (now Toledo Bend).
Quitman was heading to Nacogdoches where he hoped to join forces with Houston's small army. Quitman's company included 17 volunteers from the Fencibles in Natchez, part of the fourth regiment of the Mississippi militia. A group of 600 men from the Natchez region would soon be in route to Texas led by Quitman's friend Gen. Felix Huston, who was also a lawyer and plantation owner.
In San Augustine, Quitman ran into an unexpected problem: a confederacy of professional gamblers that had been expelled by the citizenry of both Vicksburg and Natchez the year before had set up camp in San Augustine and had taken over the town, which was in a state of emergency due to the war. Many citizens had already fled eastward to Louisiana as rumors spread that Santa Anna's Mexican army was nearing the region.
Quitman's party camped for the night in a large unfinished building in town. As six men guarded the horses and while Quitman prepared to bed down for the night, he had an unexpected visitor.
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