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Veteran Bio

The house in which they were married still stands. It is on the left of the Stockdale road one fourth of a mile beyond the city of Seguin Light and Water plant.

One of Flores boys in Seguin's Company

Guillermo M. Sequin, Grandson, Eagle Pass

See Anson Jones' "History of Texas" page 482

"Col. Juan N. Seguin accounts for the naming of the town of Seguin for him from the fact that he caused the first post office to be established there. The place had been called 'Nogales' before. Extract from a sketch of Col. Juan N. Seguin, Northern Standard, Feb. 25, 1887, p. 4, c. 2.

Following is a copy of Comptroller's Military Service Record No. 1292, on file in the Archives of the Texas State Library, Austin:

"War Department, Houston May 17, 1837

I hereby certify that Juan N. Seguin was commissioned on the thirtieth of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty six as Lieutenant Colonel of Regular Cavalry of Texas, and has served as such up to the present date.

William S. Fisher Secretary of War"

The following is a copy of Comptroller's Military Service Record No.

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Juan Nepomuceno Seguín

“He saw his friends slaughtered at the Alamo.”
Dr. Donald Frazier describes Juan Seguin’s role in the battle.

HE LEAD A MILITIA COMPANY to Monclova in the Mexican state of Coahuila, which had become the official capital of Texas in 1833 after fighting between Centralist and Federalist forces had broken out. By the fall of 1835, he was performing non-combat operations for the revolutionary army.

When revolutionary forces placed General Cos under siege at San Antonio de Béxar, Juan Seguín was more than willing to participate. He was a valued Alamo defender, but when Santa Anna arrived to seal the Alamo's fate, Seguín was on a dangerous courier assignment.

Seguín was a strong supporter of the federalist principles which Santa Anna betrayed. A man more of action than words, he organized a company of Tejano soldiers that would play an invaluable role in the Texian cause. Seguín's Tejano unit fought bravely at the Battle of San Jacinto, and followed the defeated Centralists to the Rio Grande, ensuri

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Juan Seguin Letter of Appointment, 1836

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by Jenny Cobb, Associate Curator of Exhibitions

This hand-written appointment documents the moment a Texas revolutionary was created.

Born in San Antonio to a long-established Tejano family, Juan Seguín began his military career in the spring of 1835 after he learned General Antonio López de Santa Anna had abolished Texas’s constitutional government and centralized authority in Mexico. Stephen Austin, head of the Texas volunteer army at the time, appointed Seguín to the rank of captain following the battle of Gonzales in October 1835, the battle that began the Texas Revolution.

“The accredited patriot D. Juan Seguin is appointed captain in the federal army of Texas, and as such is fully authorized to raise a company of patriots to work against the Centralists and military in defense of the constitution of 1824 and the federal system.”

Seguín raised a company of 37 soldiers tasked with scouting and supply operations for the revolutionary army before taking up arms at the S