[2254] [NEILL to EGGLESTON]
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Gonzales March 6th 1836 Received of Horace Eggleston a Set of medicines of the amount of Ninety Dollars which sd medicines I have this day purchased from him for the use of the Post of Bexar
J.C. Neill Col. Comdt. of the Post of Bexar
[2255] [PARMER to PARMER]
Committee room, Washington, Texas, March 6th, 1836. Dear Wife: I am well and we are getting along very .well. We have three or four committees who are preparing a constitution, and we will soon have it ready. I shall be at home in ten or fifteen days, we have alarming news continually from the west; Frank Johnson's division is all killed, but five, it is supposed. We saw two shot begging for quarters. Dr. Grant with a company of men is supposed to be all slain. Travis' last express states San Antonio was strongly besieged; it is much feared that Travis and company are all massacred, as despatches have been due from that place three days and none have arrived here yet. The frontiers are breaking up, Gonzales must be sacked, and its inhabitants murdered and defiled unless they get immediate aid. The last accounts, the Mexicans were to a considerable number between Gonzales and San Antonio. Fanning is at La Bahia with about 500 men, and is in daily expectation of a visit from Santa Anna. Texas has been declared free and independent, but unless we have a general turn out and every man lay his helping hand too, we are lost. Santa Anna and his vassals are now on our borders, and the declaration of our freedom, unless it is sealed with blood, is of no force. I say again that nothing will save Texas but a general turn out. You all know my views with regard to our condition; I have given you facts, judge for yourselves. I wish a copy of this letter sent
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