lie rlown in 1hr. prairie unlil the moon rose, hul we w1~11t lo sleep and di<I not w,1k1\ until sun rist~. We then had aho11l five miles lo travd ht'l'orr. we could gd lo the woods on lhe Bra1.os rivcir. In doinl! this, wr. went in si~lrl of the ~foxicans in San Fclippe, who wr.rc so1111di11g !heir bugles, healing their drums, ancl firing their cannon. We went through Lhc timber on the Br.1~0s Lo the river and one of our company said he could not swim il. We then went into the prairie along the edge of the woods, which were too thick for 11s to pass through them. We concluded lo ~o to Washington and Lhere cross the river if we could not hear any thing of the Amt~rican Army. We went 011 to Mr. Cummings' house on Mill Creek, which was very high and we had to swim. We had not been there more 1han an hour when we saw one of our spies. J called Lo him but he was a little backward al first, being some distance off at the Lime. He came up to us, and, that night, rode back lo Campana, and sent us horses. That night we staid in the picket guard camp four miles from Cummings' and four miles from Gen. Houston's camp. The next morning we rcacl1ecl the camp. As soon as I arrived, Col. Bcnj. F. Smith sent for me and gave me some clothes and told me that his negro boy should wait on me until f got well. We crossed the Brazos in four or five days after we got there. We crossed at Groccs, and staid there two or three days, and then took up our line of march for Harrisburg on Bt1ffalo Bayou. W1•: arrived at Buffalo Bayou, opposite Harrisburg, on the 17th of April, and, that evening, our spies took three Mexican couriers with dispatches to Santa Anna. The Mexicans were in Harrisburg al the time we encamped on the other side. That night, ahoul eleven o'clock, we heard their drums beating, and, the next morning, we heard they had taken up their line of march towards Anahuack. We immediately crossed the bayou which took us all day, and the army marched nearly all night. The next clay we came in sight of the Mexican army. Our army encamped on Buffalo Bayou near San Jacinto, and, that night, we went back and crossed the bridge that crosses Sims' I3ayou. On the 20th, the Mexicans commenced cannonading our camp. Gen. Houston ordered Col. Sherman to lead out the cavalry and lake a piece of wood before the Mexicans, but the Mexicans gol thcr«! first, and Sherman, not seeing them, marched slowly inlo the timber, when he was fired on hy the Mexicans, but nobody was hurt. There was one horse killed. On the next day, the men wer«! ,1II formed, and Gen. Houston told them, that such as could not sturHI the bay<Jntl, must stay lid1ind. The left wing of our army was commanded 1,y Col. Sl11:rman, the centre by Gen. Houston, and the right 1,y Col. Barlcson. The Mc:xican army's left was commanrled hy
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