The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-30
An ola Time Texas Printer.

AD old Time Texas Printer,
A pleasing incident recalls to the
mind OF the writer, the important
part played by printers IN the Texas
revolution Of 1896, II was under
stood that twenty -one printers were In
the battle Of San Jacinto, among the
survivors OF whom nre Colonel John
M. Wade, OF Montgomery, Texns, mud
Captain James a. SYN estur, OF New
Orleans, who bore the most cOnspicll-
Gus part IN the capture Of Santa Anna
and Lancelot Abb0tt, IN England.
But many others arrived ns soldiers
In the country little too late 10 DO IN
the battle, but who served IN the army
successfully under Generals Rush,
Felix Houston aud Sidney Johnson.
OF these Judge Joel Miner, lives near
Austin, Alexand Area, IN the noun
tains of Texas, w. ID. Shins, (Santa
lfe prisoner), now Of the Tyler Grange
Reporter, j. A. Clark, now teacher
ard preacher In Hood county.
or the the same class were Major
james ID. Cooke and Martin g. Wing,
who drew black bears In Mexico In
1910 uuu WttO 6lOt hphhlh
Annals order. OF the same class Is a
gentleman whose arrival In Dallas u
kay or two since, in the pleasant incl
dent referred to as the incentive to
this article.
refer TO Mr.. Henry Hyland, who
IL now In the city. He was born and
reared In Mississippi, and In youth
became an expert printer In the
spring Of 1896, when but twenty-one
years of age, he volunteered In the
cause of Texas, and arrived OH the
Battlefield Of San Antonio a few days
after the battle, in company COM
manded by the afterwards distin-
guished) Genaral John A. Quitman.
He served In the army OF the South.
west for six months, was honorably
discharged, and then obtained EN-
ployment as printer under Gail and
Thomas M. Borden, in the IetGWuph
office at Columbia. While In the army,
on detached service, he was In severe
Indian fight west of the Guadalupe.
He went to Houston In the beginning
of 1897, with the Government, and
continued In the Telegraph Office for
some years. He set the type for the
laws of C0ahuila and Texas, In both
Spanish and English, the translation
being made by the noted Sidney Pearl
Andrews, Woman's Rights celeb
rity, who also figured as a witness in
the late Beecher-Tilton trial. An.
drews was for several years a lawyer
In Houston. may also mention
that In those days Andrew Jackson
Dayis, afterward the famous writer OH
Spiritualism, was clerk of the cour,
Iii Houston; while Thomas Gales
Forster, also printer, subsequently
noted ~ u spirltualist in Cincinnati,
was Chief Clerk In the War Depart
ment ut Houston and Austin.
Mr. Hyland duly received his head
right certificate for third of IA league
and also u bounty warrant for six hun
dred and forty acres for services IL
1886, signed by Barnard Il. Bee, Secre
tary of War, the record evidence. o
which was destroyed by the burning o
the Adjutant Generals office In 1866.
On the 18th Of September, 1912, Mr.
Hyland was with the writer in the bat
tie of the Salado, and in the fall and
winter following they were again to-
gether in the Somervill expedition t.
the Rio Grande, eliminating In tn,
battle of Mier. ...- s-,.
/ In 1914 he returned to Mississippi
and, for the intervening thirty-One
years, has remained In his native State
returning now to behold changes which
no one could have forseen. Under oul
law he IL clearly entitled to the bach
pension granted to Others for about
four years, prior to July !, 1874. Yet
strange as II may seem, he ia liable I,
some trouble in establishing his iden
tity as the Henry Hyland of Quitman'.
company, owing to the death of all hi
first comrades, Francis II. Dufion, til,
last except himself haying died in Aus
tin In 1871. Hewill, however, through
the testimony of Thomas II. Border
and several others so clearly prove
both his service and his identity rs t.
remove all difficulty.
Not SO much for the general public
as..the pleasure of my brother printers
old and young, are these hasty rem
iniscences placed at the disposition o
Mr.. J0hn w. Swindells, the 0ldes
time resident printer of this portion o
Texas. J.. lib.