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Quitman in command as Nacogdoches braces for attack
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In the spring of 1836, Texas was in chaos. Blood was flowing from San Antonio to Goliad, the Mexican army was pursuing the rebel Texas Army under Gen. Sam Houston and Anglo settlers, most American born, were racing for the protection of the United States inside the western border of Louisiana.
In Washington, President Andrew Jackson was receiving regular updates on the state of the rebellion. He was pulling for the Texans, and doing what he could for his protégé, Sam Houston, who was in command of the small Texan army of less than 1,000 men. U.S. troops under Gen. E.P. Gaines were on alert, watching the Louisiana border at the Sabine River and prepared, if need be, to race into east Texas if Gen. Santa Anna's Mexican army came near Nacogdoches.
From throughout the southern United States, frontiersmen were racing to Texas to join the rebels. Among those heading for the war zone was Natchez lawyer and militia captain John Quitman. He had served as Mississippi state chancellor, was elected to the House and later to the Senate, where he served as president. Briefly, he had served in the state's highest office as governor, stepping down just four months before leading volunteers to fight in Texas.
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