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I hope I may aid in it, as it is - and that I may hear from you to the west, waging battle for your injured and oppressed countrymen. Do write me occasionally, addressed to the care of our friends McKinney & Williams. In the meantime, believe me, Dr Genl. to be yr friend & obt servt
J. W. Fannin, Jr.
[2295] [GRAY to-----]
Gonzales, March 11th. 1836.
Dear Sirs:-
At 4-0'clock this afternoon, Anselmo Bergara and Andrew Bargana, came to this town with the disagreeable intelligence of the laking of the Alamo by Genl. Santa Anna. The event is related in the following manner:- On Saturday night, the 5th of the present month, he marched his infantry under the walls, and surrounded them with cavalry, to prevent escape in case they should attempt to fly. At daybreak on Sunday morning he planted his ladders, which were carried by the infantry, against the sides of the four walls, and carried the place by assault, with great loss of infantry. All within the Fort perished. Seven of them were killed by order of Santa Anna when in the act of giving up their arms. Travis killed himself. And Bowie was killed while lying sick in bed. The Misses (illegible] & [illegible], who were in the Fort, were delivered up to their father. All the above is derived from what was told to Bergara by D[illegible] on Sunday night when he, Bergara, went in from the country. It must be understood that Bergara remained at large in Bejar thirteen days after the entrance of Santa Anna, and walked about undisturbed by him all that time. Barcena says that Bergara came to the rancho of my father-in-law, on Saturday night, before the entrance of the troops into the walls, and that he knows nothing about it- only what was told by Antonio (illegible]. had been called by D.L.) on Sunday in the night, who said that he had been in the battle,-that 521 of the infantry were killed and as many more badly wounded. The contradiction of these two men makes me suspect that they are spys sent by Santa Anna;- because, why should bergarra
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