Santa Ana was taken the day after the battle, about J 0 miles above, in the woods, in a mean citizen's dress, and did not make himself known until he was taken into the presence of Gen. Houston, to whom he immediately offered a feast of soft corn. You will be gratified by a description of Santa Ana's person. His forehead is high, but narrow in front; spreading as it extends back obliquely - hair moderately black - smaU whiskers, a little mixed with grey. The skin wrinkles on the lower part of his forehead, as he elevrtea his eyes to speak. He has large, mild, black eyes - his nose is narrow between the eyes, but is tolerably strait, and becomes fleshy towards the end. His mouth is nothing extraordinary, the upper lip rather projecting; one of his upper front teeth is gone; his under jaw is long. His countenance is animated when speaking. His complexion is a little tawny; but he shows more of the Moorish than the Mexican tincture. He might pass for a white man, but would not pass for a native, in the United States. His height is five feet, ten inches, or perhaps more, and he is tolerably well proportioned. His age is forty one. General Cos was taken two days after the battle, and was brought back to camp, a picture of fear. When I first saw him, he was lying upon the ground, and had hid himself under a little old blanket - the only rrnrts which be seen of him was his hair, which is dark brown, and his hand which held the blanket over his head was small and had remarkably short finger nails. I saw him afterwards, when his fright was gone. He is about five feet nine inches high, built for activity - has a high forehead but not very broad - his nose is long, strait and well formed - his eyes a brilliant black. He has large, long black whiskers, sun-burnt at the ends, and red, sandy mustachoes. His complexion is sun-burnt, and he wears little gold rings in his ears. He is a cousin to Santa Ana. The [torn] personage, Colonel Almonte, is the reputed natural son of a Spanish priest, by a full-blooded l\foxican woman. He has a good countenance - was educated in Europe, and speaks English well, and is regarded as a man of superior talents. But all these Mexicans appear but as ordinary man in personal appearance when compared with General Houston himself, who possesses a manly and noble countenance, rarely surpassed among men. But he now appears pale and sickly, in consequence of a wound which he received in the battle, which shattered his leg above the ancle. There are 14 other Texians woulded and 7 killed - among the latter a son of Major Brigham of Brazoria, one of the most promising youths of Texas! Your oh't serv't; s.
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