orden, se ponga en marcha, con toda esa division para esle mismo punto. Si S. E. el general Filisola no hubiere llegado, le pondra V. S. inmedialamente un correo, avisandola clirija su marcha tambien para este lugar, sin necesidad de tocar en San Felipe. Lo mismo verificara V. S. con el general Gaona, si aun no hubiese llegado. Dios y liberlad. Paso del Rio de Orozimba, Abril 11 de 1836. - Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna. Y tengo el honor de insertarlo a V. E., para su debido conocimiento; en el concepto, de que emprendo la marcha en el acto, y de que no doy aviso al Sr. general Gaona, por no tener correo con que hacerlo; y creo que V. E. podra veri ficarlo con alguno de los presidiales que quedaron en ese punto, al Sr. general Woll. Con este motivo, reitero a V. E. las consideraciones de mi aprecio. Dios y libertad. San Felipe de Austin, Abril 11 de 1836. - Joaquin Ramirez y Sesma." (2718) [SHAIN to SHAIN] Dear Father:-! take this opportunity of writing a few lines to let you know that I am still in existence. I suppose you will have heard before this reaches you that I was either taken prisoner or killed. I was taken prisoner on the 20th of last month, and kept a week, when all of us were ordered out to be shot, but I, ,vith six others, out of 521, escaped. Before we were taken, Col. Fannin's party had a battle with the Mexicans in a large prairie, and killed and wounded, as the Mexicans themselves said, 300 of them; but one of the Mexicans, who was a prisoner at the time, says that it took them all the night of the 19th to bury their dead, and that we must have killed and wounded something like 800 or a thousand. Their force was 1900 strong,-ours 250. The circumstances under which we were taken were these. We were completely surrounded, without any provisions or waler, and in such a situation that we could not use our cannon; in consequence of which we thought it best to surrender on the terms offered to us-which were, to treat us [as] prisoners of war, and according to the rules of Christian warfare. But how sadly we
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