Excerpt from History of the Regulators and Moderators: And the Shelby County War in 1841 and 1842, in the Republic of Texas

Yielding to the solicitations of many old friends and participants in the exciting scenes of the early history Republic of Texas, and desirous to correct the errors which have arisen in regard to the causes of the Shelby County War, and to place before the public in a fair and impartial light the action of the two parties engaged in the difficulties in Shelby and other counties in Eastern Texas in 1841 and 1842, I have undertaken this work. I was a resident at that time of Shelby county and a witness to and sufferer in many of the bloody conflicts of that stormy period, Many histories have been written of the time mentioned, but either facts have been suppressed or such a coloring has been given them as to do injustice to one or the other of the parties engaged. The only exactly, fair and true narrative, that to my knowledge was ever written, was by Colonel Mormon, and this was destroyed or lost, and in consequence of his death it could not be reproduced. The loss of his work has been long deplored by those who felt a deep interest in transmitting to their posterity the true history of that period and shielding their names from the obloquy in which it has been sought to clothe them. Many years have passed since the occurrence of the events I am about to relate, but they survive fresh and green in my memory.

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