[Joseph Eggleston Johnston at San Antonio, Texas, to Robert Milligan McLane at [Washington City], April 19, 1850. Box 3, Louis McLane Correspondence (1795-1894), MSS 57083, Library of Congress. This is my rough transcription. Added paragraph breaks inserted for easier reading.]
My dear Robert,
Lily sets out tomorrow, in company with Mrs. Worth's family, for New Orleans, where the party will take the New York steamer of the 30th. She will probably be in Maryland or the D. C. by the 20th May, to spend the summer among you all & leave you in October, say about the middle.
At that time I expect you to look to my interest in the way of preventing conspiracies against my wife's return. Indeed I think it is important that she should spend another winter in the South. It would conform the restoration of her health, & make her as safe as another in any climate, & unless the Whigs will make some improvement of Southern rivers & harbours this is our only chance for Southern residence -- & that recommendation is worth all the disageeabilities.
Lily received a letter from Georgine by the last mail. She says that you talk of writing to me. It gratified me much, & revived the hope of learning what is going on in "the states" as we say in Texas.
Is it expected in Congress that anything will be done this session -- we hope or did hope here, to get the U.S. mail arrangements extended to San A.
Do pass some laws (to be enforced) concerning these Indians. They annoy me very much. I am compelled to move always with an armed party, & to exercise more vigilance every night than civilized warfare ever requires, to prevent finding myself afoot in the morning. I set off in a few days towards Presidio del Norte to find a frontier way to El Paso.
Why did you not send me your speech? I am anxious to see if it deserves the applause bestowed.
My love to Georgine & the children.
As ever,
J. E. Johnston
[Captain Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Topographical Engineers (1807-1891)
Lily = Lydia Milligan Sims McLane Johnston (1822-1887)
Robert Milligan McLane (1815-1898)
Louis McLane (1784-1857)
Worth = William Jenkins Worth (1794-May 7, 1849), one of about five hundred fatalities from a cholera outbreak in San Antonio in the spring of 1849.
Mrs. Worth = Margaret Stafford Worth (1799-1869); her family included Mary Worth (1822-1876), who had married one of General Worth's officers, John Titcomb Sprague (1810-1878), the author of a book on the Seminole Wars; Margaret Worth (1828-1914); Josephine Worth (1830-?); and William Scott Worth (1840-1904).
Georgine = Georgine Urquhart McLane (1813-1899)
Little ones = Mary Emma McLane (1843-1869) and Georgina Urquhart "Jennie" McLane (1846-1915). The latter lived in Paris from 1885 until her death in 1915.]
[Many thanks to Sue Davis, William Myers, Mary Davy and Sally Young for their ongoing research collaboration.]
My dear Robert,
Lily sets out tomorrow, in company with Mrs. Worth's family, for New Orleans, where the party will take the New York steamer of the 30th. She will probably be in Maryland or the D. C. by the 20th May, to spend the summer among you all & leave you in October, say about the middle.
At that time I expect you to look to my interest in the way of preventing conspiracies against my wife's return. Indeed I think it is important that she should spend another winter in the South. It would conform the restoration of her health, & make her as safe as another in any climate, & unless the Whigs will make some improvement of Southern rivers & harbours this is our only chance for Southern residence -- & that recommendation is worth all the disageeabilities.
Lily received a letter from Georgine by the last mail. She says that you talk of writing to me. It gratified me much, & revived the hope of learning what is going on in "the states" as we say in Texas.
Is it expected in Congress that anything will be done this session -- we hope or did hope here, to get the U.S. mail arrangements extended to San A.
Do pass some laws (to be enforced) concerning these Indians. They annoy me very much. I am compelled to move always with an armed party, & to exercise more vigilance every night than civilized warfare ever requires, to prevent finding myself afoot in the morning. I set off in a few days towards Presidio del Norte to find a frontier way to El Paso.
Why did you not send me your speech? I am anxious to see if it deserves the applause bestowed.
My love to Georgine & the children.
As ever,
J. E. Johnston
[Captain Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Topographical Engineers (1807-1891)
Lily = Lydia Milligan Sims McLane Johnston (1822-1887)
Robert Milligan McLane (1815-1898)
Louis McLane (1784-1857)
Worth = William Jenkins Worth (1794-May 7, 1849), one of about five hundred fatalities from a cholera outbreak in San Antonio in the spring of 1849.
Mrs. Worth = Margaret Stafford Worth (1799-1869); her family included Mary Worth (1822-1876), who had married one of General Worth's officers, John Titcomb Sprague (1810-1878), the author of a book on the Seminole Wars; Margaret Worth (1828-1914); Josephine Worth (1830-?); and William Scott Worth (1840-1904).
Georgine = Georgine Urquhart McLane (1813-1899)
Little ones = Mary Emma McLane (1843-1869) and Georgina Urquhart "Jennie" McLane (1846-1915). The latter lived in Paris from 1885 until her death in 1915.]
[Many thanks to Sue Davis, William Myers, Mary Davy and Sally Young for their ongoing research collaboration.]
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