(2392) [----- to EDITORS]
Beason's Ferry March 21, 1836
[Gentlemen:]
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One thousand men of the enemy are on their march lo the Colorado, and may be expected today. Our army is in fine spirits and good health; there is not a sick man on the list; and are eager to meet the enemy: the latter bring three light pieces of artillery. The general has confidence in the army's being fully competent to give a good account of the enemy. Our spies are active and vigilant, and no fears are entertained that the enemy will gain any advantage over us. The complete subordination of our troops never has been surpassed by any others of the same description in any country: their anxiety to retrieve the misfortunes of the past is heard and witnessed throughout the camp. Two hundred of our men are now crossing the river to meet the enemy's advance, and every confidence may be entertained of their success. The prisoner says that Santa Anna is gone to Mexico.
[Unsigned]
[2393) (BAKER to EDITORS]
[Moseley Baker, Camp on t~e Colorado, to Editors of the Telegraph, San Felipe, March 22, 1836, stating that the Mexican Army were crossing the Colorado at Dewees', calling on citizens to go to the army, which consists of 800 men, that a stand will be made on the Colorado, that there is no reason to move the families, calling on the women of Texas "to act well their parts, and drive from their presence fathers, brothers and friends; to permit no man to stay at home, but to bid them where duty and honor calls them," and that firing has just been heard between the Texas spies and the .Mexicans.]
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