enemy has also marched from San Antonio to attack Goliad.- Our army are in very fine spirits, and good health, not having one on our sick list. They are eager to meet the enemy-to check their impetuosity is all that will be required. The enemy have three light pieces of artillery with them. The Commander-in-Chief directs me to assure you of the vigilance and caution which will be used, and of his entire confidence in the army and.being fuUy competent to render good account to the enemy. Our spies are active and vigilant-and the enemy can gain no advantage over us. I am also further directed to inform you of the same description in any country-their anxiety to retrieve the misfortunes of the past is heard and witnessed throughout the Camp-a detachment of one hundred men are now crossing the river to meet the enemy's advance-and every confidence may be placed in their entire success. Enclosed you will find Colonel Fannin's letter to me of th Jnstant. Geo. W. Hockley, Insp. General of the Army (2388) [HOTCHKISS REPORT]
Committee Room,
San Augustine, March 21, 1836 In accordance with a communication from the committee of vigilance and safety of Nacogdoches, under date of the 19th instant, (marked A,} and from information which has come to our knowledge from sources which cannot be doubted, this committee deem it proper to make the following report: 1st. That large bodies of northern Indians, composed of Caddoes, Shawnees, Delawares, Kickapoos, Cherokees, Creeks, and other renegade Indians from the United States of the North, are now assembling at the three forks of the Trinity, whose known intentions, clearly proven to us, are to make war upon the inhabitants of the frontier. 2d. In discharge of our duty as a constituted committee of vigilance and safety, and knowing the vast importance of those facts to us as well as that of your Government, this committee have thought proper to enter into the following resolutions:
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