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wilh safely from the east bank of the Brazos, where they had accumulated in great numbers, to the San Jacinto, or lo Trinity. Gen. Houston was about two thousand strong, by last advices, and although many were employed, necessarily, in re- moving the families and slaves, he was reinforced daily, - the army was in high spirits, and eager for action. It is well understood, however, that the General intended to hazard nothing; but, on the contrary, to sacrifice both time and territory to the cause till be could prescribe the ground, and meet the enemy with sufficient force, not only to insure victory, but to pursue the advantages which victory might give him. The whole force of Lhe enemy now in the field is believed to be from three to four thousand, under the command of Gen. Siezma, second in command at Zacatecas, in 1833. The hard and unprecedented fate of Col. FAnnin and his brave companions, is but too well confirmed, by the latest advices at head quarters, sayd my informant, to admit any longer even a hope, that they still live. After stipulating, at the time of surrender, for the lives, pubsistence and transportation of himself and men on a Mexican vessel from Copano to New Orleans, at the expense of his government, this champion of liberty and surviving heroes, who byt nine days before, had sustained an action of nine hours duration in the open field, against 8 Lo 10 times their numbers, after marching a few miles from Goliad in the direction of Capano, were fired upon by the detachment sent to conduct them to the vessel, and all killed but one. A private, by the name of William Hadden, and three others, escaped the first fire and ran off. Hadden fell in very high grass, and behind a bush - and perceiving that he was not pursued, lay concealed till night - the other three were shot the second fire by their pursuers. After sunset, and after the assasins had plundered the dead and retired to the fort, Hadden made his escape, crossed the San Antonio river, and reached the Colorado on the 8th day, when he was accidentally found in a state of starvation, by Major Benjamin J. White, and broght into the settlements on the Brazos. It is upon Hadden's statement, that these details are founded - And but for his escape, in a manner almostmiraculous, the world must have remained ignorant for a long time to come, perhaps forever, of this atrocious and cold blooded massacre by the enemy, and of the unrevenged and yet unpunished martyrdom of the volunteers heroes of the Colet. My informm1t above quoted states, that on his way in, he saw and conversed with Mrs. Dickerson, the widow of one of the gunners al the fall of the Alamo, and the only white person in the
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