These biographical sketches are the product of a life-long devotion to Texas history by Louis Wiltz Kemp.
In compiling them, he referenced many sources, including boundary and
donation certificates, comptrollers military service records, headright
certificates, county deed and probate records, and oral compilations by
descendants of veterans.
With assistance from the George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation,
and from volunteers from the San Jacinto State Historic Site's
Residential Volunteer program, we are pleased to make the Kemp Sketches
for the veterans present at the Battle of San Jacinto available online. They
are reproduced here to make valuable information in the Museum's
collection available to researchers in an accessible format.
Kemp organized his biographical sketches into two groups: those who actually fought in the Battle of San Jacinto, and those who were with the baggage and the sick camped at Harrisburg.
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