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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia. (search)
rked at twelve o'clock at night on board the steamer Matagorda. General Sherman promised Col. Van Dorn 400 men if he would wait till the next morning, as he would telegraph to Houston for the companies there, who are ready to move at a moment's notice; but the expedition admitted of no delay, and by three o'clock A. M., the Matagorda, with her gallant little band, was outside the bar. On the Wigfall Guards leaving their armory they were presented with a beautiful Lone Star flag by Capt. H. C. Bacon, attached to a mounted pike staff. The Matagorda arrived at Indianola on the 17th, at 5 P. M., and disembarked her troops at Siluria wharf. The steamer Rusk was coming in at the time from Lavaca, when she was immediately signalized and ordered to come alongside. The Galveston troops were immediately transferred to her, and the Rusk proceeded down the bay, under command of Col. Van Dorn, to the anchorage outside, where the Star of the West was lying. She was immediately boarded