240
TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
officer in command W.D.C.Hall arrive and took command of our force; at this time I left our lines and went in the direction of the enemy to secure my papers, fearing they might fall in the hands of the enemy,-I arrive at my House, but finding the enemy on their march within about two hundred yards distance of me, I was compelled to return without them-on my return, I found our men on the retreat; I mounted my horse and followed on in their rear; the Mexicans being at this time within about three hundred yards of our force (about 30,) the force of the enemy being about 2 or 300 hundred men and one four or six pounder- we continued our march in good order,-the enemy marched <>n until they had passed a short distance, the position which we had <>ccupied they halted and gave us two fires from their Cannon, but with no effect-we continued our march about two miles where we met the balance of our army-it was then thought most prudent (it being near six Oclock in the evening) to re-occupy our former encampment neiu the farm of Taylor White, we accordingly done so-reached the en- campment about Dark,-a very, short time after we reached the en- campment, a Mr 15 Hayden shot a l\Ir 15 Blakemore, in the back, who died instantly-'-Blakemore was the sergeant of the guard; Hayden and others were following Blakemore to be placed on post-Hayden fled immediately, was fired at, but without effect-there -was several alarms through the night, and it was reported that Hayden ·was shot at by several of our centinels in the course of the night-this :affair produced great excitement and alarm :in our camp, and was near ibreaking up our army, as it was feared there might be other Haydens iin camp-On the morning of the 16th a meeting or councel was called, when the army unanimously declared for the Plan of San Tana- 16 the. 'Same morning the army took up the line of march for Liberty- Genl. John Austin was dispatched to the Brassos to procure some cannon, and convey them into Galveston Bay-the army to remain in the neigh- bourhood of Liberty and recruit, until the Cannon arrive- the night of the 16th the army encamped at the farm of W. ·R Griffin within eight miles of Liberty, where they were joined by a number of citizens from different quarters-t~ey army [sic] remained the 17th at the farm of Oriffin--on the 18th removed to Liberty, where it remained several days, :all of which time our numbers increased daily-after remaining a few -days at Liberty it was considered that our force was sufficient to -autherize our return to Anahuac-accordingly the army removed about ten miles in that direction where they remained one day-on the army's leaving Liberty, I went on a visit to my family about 9 miles north of Liberty-while there I fell in with a Mexican officer and his attend- -ants,-I was informed that he was a commissioner from Col. Padrez- 17 that' Col. Padrez of Nacogdoches had been informed of the difficulty between the people and the Mexican forces at Anahuac,-that he had under his command about one hundred and fifty men, encamped about thirty miles from Liberty, but would proceed no further until he heard from the commander of the American forces- I immediately set out in company with the commissioner, his interpreter, a Mr Pallett, and
10 Blank in document. 1 •santa Anna. . 11 Piedras. The name is spelled Padrez throughout the document.
Powered by FlippingBook