Independent.- Give my love lo my dear mother, sisters and brothers, and friends generally- Benj. Briggs Goodrich P.S. News has just reached that the enemy arc on their march to this place and we know not at what moment we shall be compelled to move our women and children beyond their reach. Their mode of warfare is strictly savage; they fight under a Red Banner, and we ask nor expect no quarter in the future,-! will advise you from time to time (if alive) and would highly appreciate hearing from you.-Direct your letters to Cantonment Jessup, pay postage and I will be sure to get them. Sincerely your brother & relative [Addressed:] Goodrich Free to the U. States, 1836 B. B. Goodrich Memb. Convention Mr. Edmund Goodrich Nashville Tennessee _ (2327) [GRAY to BLACKFORD] (William Fairfax Gray, Washington, to W. M. Blackford, March 15, 1836, about the fall of the Alamo.] (2328] [HOUSTON to COLLINSWORTH] Camp at Navadad, March 15, 1836. To James Collinsworth, Chairman of the Military Committee: Sir,- Since I had the honor to address you from Gonzales, the lady of Lieutenant Dickinson, who fell at the Alamo, has arrived, and confirms the fall of that place, and the circumstances,· pretty much as my express detailed them. She returned in. company with two negroes- one the servant of Colonel Travis, the other a servant of Colonel Almonte. They both corroborate the statement first made and forwarded lo you. Other important intelligence arrived al Gonzales- that the army of Santa Anna had · encamped al the Cibolo on the night of the ll th inst., after a.
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