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No. 351, House
Documents, pages 775-779; John Holmes Jenkens, III, supra, Vol. 5, p. 17, Document 2261, Greenwood to President of Convention, March 7, 1836; Vol. 5, pp. 25-26, Document 2271, Franks to Convention, March 8, 1836; Vol. 5, p. 144, Document 2370, Raquet to Chairman, March 19, 1836; Vol. 5, p. 149, Document 2380, Mason to Nelson, March 20, 1836; Vol. 5, p. 153, Document 2388, A. Hotchkiss Report, San Augustine, March 21, 1836; Vol. 5, p. 429, Document 2703, Deposition of C. H. Sims, April 11, 1836; Vol. 5, pp. 429-430, Document 2703, Deposition of William Sims, April 11, 1836; and Vol. 5, p. 430, Document 2703, Deposition of M. B. Menard, April 11, 1836.
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adopted on 3/17/2005 by the 79th Texas
Legislature. The resolution reads in part: "...he successfully quelled an uprising...through a peaceful negotiation with Caddo Chief Cortes; his efforts helped enable General Sam Houston to focus the full strength of his army on defeating Mexican troops led by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at the famed Battle of San Jacinto, effectively securing the independence of the Republic of Texas."
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The
Register of Graduates of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, published by the West Point Association of Graduates, 2005 (listing all graduates): Joseph Bonnell, Class of 1825, Cullum No. 418; William Shaler Stilwell, Class of 1827, Cullum No. 505. Stephen L. Moore, Eighteen
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Register of Graduates of the United States Military Academy, supra: Albert Sidney Johnston, Class of 1826, Cullum No. 436. Bonnell was a Cadet Lieutenant while Johnston, in the class below Bonnell, was a Cadet Sergeant Major: USMA Post Orders, Vol. 3, 1823-1825, 1st Class Cadet Bonnell to Cadet
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Report of
Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell to Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, April 20, 1836, U.S. Serial Set, Microfiche 4904, United States and Mexico, 1828-1838, 25th Congress, 2nd Session, No. 332, House Documents, Volume 12, Number 351, Fiche 9, Document 351, pages 774-775. Entire paragraph is
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The sword carried by
General Houston in the Battle of San Jacinto was given to him by his friend, Joseph Bonnell. Bonnell had been in West Point with Texas Army Lieutenant William S. Stilwell who was with the “Twin Sisters” artillery at the Battle of San Jacinto. Bonnell was also at West Point with
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Bonnell to be his Aide-de-Camp, an appointment approved by the government of Texas. Bonnell performed the duties of Aide by providing General Houston with a comprehensive report on how to organize and establish an army. General Houston recommended that Bonnell be commissioned as a Captain
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F. Todd Smith, supra, p. 128; John H. Reagan, “Expulsion of the
Cherokees from East Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1, July 1897, pp. 38-39; Texas State Archives, Biographical and Historical Files, Army Papers; United States and Mexico, 1828-1838, 25th Congress, 2nd Session,
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Bonnell found the Indian villages empty except for women and children, the warriors having gone to the field. He finally located Caddo Chief Cortes and negotiated with him to have the warriors return to the villages in peace. Bonnell successfully completed his dangerous mission, which was of great
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sold all of their lands in the United States to the United States. Lieutenant
Bonnell asked to read the treaty before the chiefs signed and was refused by the US Agent. After the signing, it was discovered that the US Agent had included a hidden provision by which associates of the US Agent were
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His heroism in support of the War for Texas
Independence is acknowledged in Texas House of Representatives Resolution #615 "Paying tribute to the life of Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell, hero of the Texas Revolution, and commemorating the placement of a historical marker at his grave site", which was
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North American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, PA, September 29, 1840, page 2. Bonnell had been granted a four-month leave “for the benefit of his health” on July 16, 1840: Military Intelligence, Army and Navy Chronicle (1835-1842), July 16, 1840, 11, 3, American Periodical Series Online, page
249:, who later became Commanding General of the Texas Army and Secretary of War of the Republic of Texas when the new capital was built in Austin. In August 1836, three months after the Battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston, Joseph Bonnell, and Albert Sidney Johnston were all in Nacogdoches, Texas.
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Letter of April 7, 1836 from Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines to 1st Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell, Letters sent by the Western Department, Volume 7, Record Group 393, Records of the U.S. Army Continental Commands, Part 1, Entry 5568, pages 278-279, Gaines to Bonnell, April 7,
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Texas State Archives; John Holmes Jenkins, III, Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836, Presidial Press, Austin, 1973, Vol. 9, p. 385. Document 4366, Resolution approving the appointment of Lieutenant Bonnill ; reprint in Gammel, Laws of Texas, I,
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Butler-Gunsaulus Collection, Box 2, Folder 48, Houston, Samuel to Joseph Bonnell, November 22, 1835, Special Collection Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
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Lieutenant; 2nd Class Cadet Johnston to Cadet Sergeant Major. Also see Charles P. Roland, Albert Sidney Johnston, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1964, 2nd Printing 1990, page 58, 82, and 100.
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Alex Dienst Papers, TXU-A, 2.325/v.5; John Holmes Jenkins, III, supra, Vol. 5, p. 42, Document 2287, List of Officers, March 10, 1836. Bonnell is spelled “Bonnel” or “Bonnsl.”
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enriched. Lieutenant Bonnell gave a deposition for the benefit of the Caddos which ultimately reached the US Supreme Court in US v. Brooks, 51 US 445 (1850).
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