improve. You & my other dear children must conform and assist your mother as much as possible and write to me as often as possible. When you write in consequence of the letters having to pass out of the United States it will be necessary to pay the postage It is unnecessary to say how dear you all are to me. I am
at all times your affectionate father
John F Moseley
[addressed:] Miss Mary Anna Moseley
_ [2439) [PORTILLA to URREA]
From the Commandant at Goliad to General Urrea.
In compliance with the definitive orders of his excellency the general-in-chief, wliich I received direct, at four o'clock to-morrow morning the prisoners sent by you to this fortress will be shot. I have not ventured to execute the same sentence on those who surrendered to Colonel Vara, at Capano, being unacquainted with the particular circumstances of their surrender; and I trust you will be pleased to take upon yourself to save my responsibility in this regard, by informing me what I am to do with them. J. N. de Portilla. Goliad, March 26, 1836. [2440] [PATRICK to-----] [Dr. George M. Patrick to -----, March 26, 1836, describing the escape from the Mexicans at New Washington on the 16th and 17th.] [2441) [SANTA ANNA to URREA] Toclos los viveres que se tomaren el enemigo, dispondra V. S. que se inviertan en la mantencion de las benemeritas lropas de su mando sin cargo alguno. "- Dias y libertad cuartel general de Bejar Marzo 26 de 1836. - Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna. - Sr. general D. Jose Urrea. &c.
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