The Archives War
What Caused It
It all started when Sam Houston was president.Sam wanted to have the Republic of Texas’s capital in Houston.The problem is, Houston is so far away and other people like Mirabeau B. move the capitol to Austin when he was president.When Sam Houston was president for his second term he wanted the capitol to be back at his beloved Houston.
Who Is Angelina Eberly?
When Sam Houston went to Austin
he was staying in an inn run by
Angelina Eberly,but later Sam Houston
would know her as a nemesis.
As Houston stayed in
the inn Angelina grew suspicious.
Angelina Eberly The Hero
One night Angelina woke up to the
sound of the moving of the official papers.
When she saw what was happening she ran
straight to the cannon and fired.On the side
of the Land Office Building the was a hole
the size of a six pound cannon ball.When the
cannon ball hit Austin's residents woke up,
and Sam Houston’s men returned the papers
after being forced to at gunpoint.
In The End
For a few years Sam Houston
keep the government farther
North.But in late summer
of 1846,the government
was moved back to
Austin.