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divert if not Edify y01i Some tim[e] beitwen th[e] 15th and 20 of March 1836 genl Houston R[e]treated before an Jnferior forse of the Enemy from the Colorado to the Brazos River there was four Brothers of us in the Army at the time Ready to avenge the death's of the Immortal Band who so nobly feel at the Allamo. I left my Mother and Sisters and little Nephew 6 years of age with the hope of returning soon with spirits as Boyant as aire-fearing Gen] Houston would Retreat beyond the Brazos I aplied for and Received a furlow to Return home immagine my feelings on my arrival home at finding no trase of my Family not knowing but they we 1 re destroyed for I had Reason to fear both Indians & Negroes their were a great Many in the Neighbourhood I found my Family at Capt Splans 5 miles distant where my Friend Pleasant Bull had taken them who was making preparations to Rimove them with Capt Splanes Family to the East Mr Bull was the only gentleman in the neighborhood at that time Left as a suitable Purson to keep the Negroes in subjection it is due the gentleman and I would beg leave to state He was in nearly every engagement with the Enemy and was One of the few who acted so nobly at the Storming of Bexa,r my Friend & I concluded to go to Galveston Island by the way of l\1essrs Morris & Edwards at the mouth of Clear Creek on Galveston Bay we left on the first day of Aprile we arrived on Chocolate Bayou on the third day in the morning encampt near Coln Halls stock Farm where I must confess I felt mortified at seeing so manny distinguished and able men on the Plains of Chocolate Bayou when they should have been on the Plains of San Jacinto thinks I to myself here is Officers enough to command a Regiment there was Coln W. D. C. Hall Coln WT Austin Capt W Hall Lieut G Hall with their aids white and Black too numerous to mention-on the 4th I proceded on my Journey Leaving my Friend to make some Provi- sions for Mrs Splane who was Left with out the means of proceding on her Journey Coln Hall having claimed and taken possession of her teams I arrived on the Bay on the 6th in the morning my Family· verry much fatigued having suffered not a little for the want of watter we were welcomed by Our Friends-Mr Monro Edwards was on the eve of starting to the United States with his and Mr l\forris'es Family Leaving his Brother & BrotherinLaw Mr Morris in charge of betwen one and two hundred Negroes to be conveyed to the Island if compeld to move a short time after I leift Chocolate my Friend took sick with the fever when Mrs Splane was left to pro- vide for her self She left her Negroes and on horse back with her little daughter behind her She rode to Linch 's Ferry Coln Hall and his Party hearing the Enemy had Crossed the Brazos made a forsed March for the Sabbine he arrived at the mouth of Clear Creek on the evening of the 15th and brought in one of his waggons my Friend deranged with the Fever I took him to l\fr Morriss 's house where [we] endeavored to restore him-on the morning of the 17th Coln Hall rode to Washington 10 miles above us and then asserrtained that the Enemy were at Sims's Bayou he'made arrange- ments with Capt Moor who was on the Eve of starting to the Island to call by and take them & their effects to the Island on the morn- ing of the 18th the Schooner anchored of the mouth of Clear creek
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