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was then surrounded by the Enemy and they kepted up almost a con- stant fire from all most all directions, with their cannon and muskets until they surrendered on the l0tll. The morning we entered Bowics house, we were destitute of supplies, and could not obtain them with- out exposing ourselves-a :Mexican woman discovered our Situation, and offered her services to get us a Bucket of "\Yater; She got the water and on her return to the house which we occupied, was shot through the arm by the Mexicans, and [did] not reach our Station; we did not get water until night, we then eut ditches so that we could get to water without endangering our lives, the 4th day after we got in the house, Col. l\Iilam came over to our division and was standing in the yard viewing a Carriage when he recd. a Rifle Ball in his head which proved fatal-his death cause a Gloom throughout the whole division, during the day there.was 3 or 4 of the Texians killed and several wounded among the wounded was deaf Smith. that night Capt W. G Cook determined to enter the public square and asked if there was any persoµ who would go with him, the Grays all with exception of 3 said they would follow him to the devil, there was also Capt W H Patton and 10 or 12 of his company who were willing to follow also, at 11 ock, at night we were waiting for tl1e word "l\larch" under the comd. of Capt Cook, Piloted by J W. Smith, the company did not know where they wer going-Smith said that he would carry them to a house on the S(luare; when they reach the house they found the door barricaded and Smith the (P) become confused and told Capt. Cook he did not [know] where to go, Capt. C. then said follow me boys, which was done immediately by all, he mounted the walls after pass- ing the fire of five or six hundred guns through the port holes of the houses, we passed in hunting a safe retreat, we finally succeeded in getting into Square by climing over the wall one by one, after getting in the square we found ourselves exposed to tl1e Enemys cannon and musketry, we were then Led by Cook to the right, where we entered the doors of the Priests House, we thcr found the priest, 1 son and 3 Daughters the son attempted to make his escape through a window but was shot by one of the Grays We kept the old priest and 3 daughters until the surrender, the Priest informed us as soon as we got into the house, that Ugartcchau had just arrived in Town with 1000 men and that he had no doubt but we would be all killed but we all proceeded to dig up the dirt from the floor with our Bowie Knifes to help to barriccade the doors and win- dows we also took the beds and trunks that were in the house to aid but as fast as we would put them up against the doors ·and windows they were Shot out by the Cannon of the Enemy, several Balls eame through and fell in the floor by us, Capt Cook found our Situation such that we were in J,?Teart danp:er, the Cannon balls passing through the house constantly, he then turne<l to the Company and asked them say which they would ehoose, retreat, Surrender, or die, they all answered they ,<>oul<l die or do,-destitute of Provisions-we then recommenced our labours, barrieeading the doors and windows and making port holelf--at the dawn we commeeed firing through the holes that we had made witl1 our Knives We fired some Eight or ten times Killed 3 or 4 Mexicans-then 1300 Mexicans, surrendered and sent
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