abo11l a hundred and fifly yards. We Lhc11 commenced with our rifles and muskets. As soon as we opened our fire, they fell back about two hundred yards, and we kept up a regular fire until nearly sundown when they retreated. It was then proposed by some of the officers, that we should retreat to the woods, huL some of the men objected on account of our wounded. We had about 20 or 25, thal would have been lefl. If our advance guard had not been cul off from us we could have carried our wounded and made our escape to woods and waler, where we could have whipped the enemy with ease. They kept sounding their bugles every five minutes during the night, and we expected a charge every minute. A prisoner they had taken at the mission of Refusio said they were all night engaged in burying their dead. We had but six killed in ballle and about forty wounded. On the Mexican side, about eleven hundred were killed or wounded; that is what Almonte says were missing the next morning; but we supposed al the time, that aboul 7 or 8 hundrccl were killed and wounded. Thnt night the Mexicans were reinforced with artillery and five hundred men under the command of Col. Bradburn, a Kentuckian, who left Christian county for stealing negroes. Next morning, about 8 o'clock, they fired three cannon and hosited a white flag. We answered it immediately, and their commanding officer Urrea, and two other officers, one a German and the olher a Mexican, came to meet us. Some of the proposlitions were, that they were to respect our private properly, and, that we were to be treated as prisoners of war until the expiration of eight days, when we were to be sent to the United States on parole of honor. Col. Fannin then called all the officers together, slated the proposition to them, and a majority of them consented to it - I believe all of them consented with the exception of Capt. Duval. He told them that they might do as they pleased, but he would not give his consent. The negotiation was concluded. We then slacked our arms and marched in double file back lo the fort. We arrived there late in the evening. They gave us nothing to cal that night and nothing until late the next day. Then they gave us about as much for 24 hours as we could cat al one meal. We were kept in an old Church lw'o days and nights, after which we were kept in the fort until the ncxl Sunday morning. On Saturday the 26th, six days after we were tuken, Santa Anna arrived there, ancl we were the next morning taken out Lo be shot, but wt.: thot1{Zhl that they were going lo comply with tlte treaty. They divided us into three divisions. The first division was led out on the Victoria road; the second, 1.lw division that I belonged lo, was takt·n out on the San Antonio road; as for the other, I do not know where they
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