advantage of the undulation of the 1,rround, approached and placed themselves in line 3 or 400 yards in front of the enemy in the open prairie, and advanced upon the enemy: The General rode in front of the line, and gave the first order to fire upon the enemy. The enemy fired their cannon five times only. [t was loaded the sixth time and primed - the man who held the match was killed by a boy and the piece taken. It is a splendid brass nine pounder, bearing the inscriptions "El Volcan," and "Violati fulmina Regis," in Roman capital letters. The cannon was taken and the enemy put lo route nineteen minutes after the first gun was fired. The slaughter among the enemy's ranks was tremendous. I took a deliberate look over the field three days after the battle. The sight was horrible. Here lying in clusters, there scattered singly, - the ground was strewed with dead men, dead horses, guns; bayonets, swords, drums, trumpets - some shattered and broken - books, papers, shoes, sandals, caps - the chaos of a routed army was strewed upon the ground - in a confusion which the imagination cannot conceive - the natural eye must behold to be convinced of the reality. The faces of most of the dead were as black as negroes - horribly swollen and distorted - the tongues protruding - the skin blistered - the limbs in many instances swellen, elevated and half extended - horrible and disgusting masses of corruption. When the Texian army made the charge, the shouts of Alamo! Alamo!! Alamo!!! filled the air - braced the hearts of the assailants to avenge the death of their deceased friends - while the hearts of the enemy quailed with the conscious guilt of the cruel massacre of brave men, and the dread of the day of vengeance having come. The shouts of Alamo! Travis! Crocket! Fannin! were terrible to the enemy as the trump which may call the guilty of their final account. Of the whole right wing of the enemy one man only escaped death. They were slaughtered; and finally driven into the water, and the rifles ceased not their crack while an object appeared above the surface of it. The left wing of the enemy fled in confused order, commanded by Col. Almonte, and laid down their arms and surrendered to a small body of cavalry, two miles from the battle field. The number of the enemy's killed is estimated at about 700, and the prisoners taken amount to above 500 - more than two hundred of them wounded. There are 42 officers prisoners, including Almonte, Cos, and Santa Ana himself.
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