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Title: Army Orders
Identifier: foth_0645
Creator: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Dates: 1836-03-02
Box: BC DB 1836 (Streeter and Streeter variants)
Description: [Text begins:] Convention Hall, Washington, March 2, 1836. War is raging on the frontiers. Bejar is besieged by two thousand of the enemy...The citizens of Texas must rally to the aid of our army...Independence is declared, it must be maintained. ...[Signed:] Sam. Houston, Commander-in-Chief of the Army. [Followed by P. S. signed:] S. H. [handwriting on back] [Decorated with patterns as design elements.]

Title: Unanimous Declaration of Independence by the Delegates of the People of Texas, in General Convention at the town of Washington
Identifier: foth_0267
Creator: Texas. Constitutional Convention (1836)
Dates: 1836-03-02
Box: BC LOB 1830-1839
Description: The Texas Declaration of Independence is the outstanding state paper in Texas history. At the foot of the broadside are the names of all the delegates present, with the exception of George C. Childress and Sterling C. Robertson, of Milam. Gail and Thomas H. Borden, the printers of the broadside, later apologized for the omissions, stating that the document was printed "in too much haste, and chiefly in the night."

Title: William Fairfax Gray journal
Identifier: foth_0268_multipage
Creator: Gray, William Fairfax, 1787-1841
Dates: 1836-03-02
Box: 2H486
Description: William Fairfax Gray attended the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos at which delegates wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence. He kept a faithful record of the Convention's proceedings, noting that, as there was no printed press in Washington, "various copies of the Declaration were ordered to be made and sent by express to various points and to the United States."