Sam and Margaret Moffette (Lea) Houston had eight children, four boys and four girls. Sam Houston, Jr. was their first child. In 1861, Sam Houston Jr. enlisted in the Confederate army and saw action at Shiloh where he was captured and spent seven months in the Camp Douglas prisoner of war camp at Chicago. I cannot actually determine in which Texas regiment he enlisted but it was probably an infantry regiment. The Houston children were:
1.) Sam Houston, Jr.
2.) Nancy Houston
3.) Margaret
4.) Mary William
5.) Antoinette Power
6.) Andrew Jackson
7.) William Rigers
8.) Temple Lea

Sam Houston's parents were Maj. Samuel and Elizabeth (Paxton) Houston. My g,g,g,g, grandfather William Coffee saw action in the War of the Revolution and was in the same regiment as Sam Houston's father, Major Samuel Houston, Sr. of Rockbridge County Virginia. Maj.Samuel Houston, Sr. and my g,g,g,g.g grandfather were in Lt.Col.James Hendricks' 6th Virginia Regiment of Foot, Congressional Forces, Continental Line. Pvt. William Coffee enlisted in Amhearst County Virginia as a sharpshooter in Capt.Samuel Jordan Cabell's 7th Rifle Company. The Houstons settled in the same area east of Nashville Tennessee as my g.g.g.grandfather, David Coffee. In the Creek Indian War, David Crockett and Sam Houston served under Brig. Gen. John Coffee and Gen. Andrew Jackson at the battle of Horseshoe Bend.

At the battle of San Jacinto, Gen.Sam Houston remembered and used the same tactics as Brig. Gen. John Coffee did at the battle of Horseshoe Bend by trapping the opposing forces against a river.

In the War of the Revolution, the 6th Regiment of Foot was mustered in and underwent three months of training in the vacinity of Williamsburg, Virginia in the spring of 1776. In February 1777, the 6th Regiment was assigned to Daniel Morgan's Rifle Brigade. Morgan's Rifle Brigade first saw action in the battle of Saratoga at Freeman's Farm on Sept.19, 1777 and later at Bemis Heights where they defeated British General "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne.