A few hundred more Guard members worked in the headquarters building.
By the next day, all 5,700 available Guard members were dispersed around the state, they said.
People's homes were destroyed, and that includes the families of Guard members.
It was not known whether any guard members were involved in the assassination plot.
About 50 are state employees (some of them are also traditional Guard members).
A total of 33,000 Guard members from Texas have served on the border.
Most of the Guard members will be unarmed unless they are in a hazardous area.
Orange blocks show the number of hours each civil guard member has volunteered in June.
At the time, he was the only active Guard member serving in Congress.
States outside the most heavily damaged area held off sending more Guard members until the storm had passed.