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Man 94 recounts Texas history and San Jacinto memories
John Osborn Nash 94, of New Orleans, recalls Texas under four flags and hearing the San Jacinto guns. He moved from Yorkville South Carolina to Texas at age three, witnessed early Texas struggles, and later rode with the Seventeenth Texas infantry in the Civil War. Nash notes Wash Anderson’s role, Houston’s mixed views, and life from Austin to Bastrop.
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New Orléans
John Osborn Nash
Texas
Battle of
San Jacinto
New Orleana Times
Picayone
Nash
Yorkville
S. C
Buffalo
Menzjco
Jan
Peonte
Santa Ang
Wash’ Anderson
Wash
Mr. Nash
Sam Houston
Houston
Austin
Nesh
Colorado
Bull Creek
Waco
Texas Rangers
Sam ‘Highsmith
Bastrop
Zachary Taylor
Mexico
United States Army
California
Maitland
Pacific
San Francisco
Exas
Panama
Atlantic
South America
Cuba
Seventeenth
Texas Infantry
Col. Allen