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The following letter was written by a Mexican General in the army of Santa Anna to his own wife, and presents a frightful pichue of the present war in Texas. It is the o~ly ~uthentic account that we have yet received of the fate of Fanmng s troops from the Mexicans, who are not, of course, disposed to herald their own infamy. disorders of considerable magnitude committed by M---- and his soldiers, and a captain from Guanajato, named Dr. R. P----; and, becoming completely disgusted,~ obtained permission to proceed in advance of that body, and incorporate myself with Gen. Urrea's division. I did so, and joined the latter in San Patricio. - Before I reached Agua Dulce, the dead bodies of foreigners, already mangled by wild beasts, appeared by the way, and in San Patricio I saw the graves of the fallen, both of Americans and Mexicans. On marching to the ruins of the Mission del Refugio, we found the enemy in possession of the church. We commenced the assault at six in the morning, and the action continued till midnight, when they fled. They fought with an enthusiastic valor equal to that of our own men. Several of our troops were shot within four paces of the wall, the enemy being invincible, and their station only known from the voluminous flashes which issued from the building. Our loss that day, in killed and wounded, amounted to 40; and of the enemy 25 out of 30 who fell into our hands, as also some others whom we found in the church. But what an awful.scene did the field present when these prisoners were executed, and fell dead in heaps; and what spectator could view it without horror! They were all young, the oldest not more than 30, and of fine florid complexions. When these unfortunate youth were brought to the place of death, their lamentations and the appeals which they uttered to Heaven, in their own language, with extended arms, kneeling or prostrate on the earth, were such as might have caused the very stones to cry out with compassion. We passed through this town, where, except the fortifica- Goliad, March 25, 1836. Immediately after leaving Metamoras, I began to witness tions and cannons, we found nothing but ashes, rubbish and wounded men. The number of the latter amounts to 116 Mexicans and 40 foreigners, so badly attended that !t. sickened me to view what suffering had been caused by the ambition of that ungrateful
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