l>APERS OF l\IIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR 253 coolness and bravery under a destructive fire from our men, preserving all the time strict order and exhibiting no confusion, they got up in about twenty yards of our position all our guns & pistols had been fired off & we had no time to reload & must have tried the butts of our guns against their Bayonets but for the fact that some of our men who were fighting in a different place hearing the steady fire of rifles at that point attempted to come to them and in coming across the field run nearly upon the enemys cannon the 1\Iexicans took it for granted that it was an attempt to take their cannon and ordered the Morales' Battalion to reinforce the Cannon they soon after retreated until they came under cover of the Guns of the Town. Col Bowie joined us soon after the fight Commenced, and acted with his usual coolness & bravery. During the engagement, a little boy was setting down behind a bunch of small bushes loading his gun. the Cannon was fired, and the whole charge of grape & Canister struck the bushes & tore them literally to pieces, but the boy escaped unhurt. During the engagement a Mexican officer who had acted with great braver[y] charged alone ' into the midst of our men & was shot off his horse by one of our men. The fight I think lasted about an hour & a half. the number of the enemys killed has been variously estimated from forty to upwards of a hun- dred-I think the l[a]tter the more accurate. they carried off during the engagement a numbre of their dead, as I saw myself several dead men carried off on horseback during the fight. Genl. Burleson, Col. Jack, Col. Sublett, Col. Summerville, Col. Johnson, and Adjutant Brister [we]re all on this field. adjt. Brister who has since been killed. acted with great bravery during the whole of the fight, & old JUr. Burle- son, the father of Genl Burleson, particularly distinguished himself. after the battle was over we formed & waited about an hour & marched back to camp where we arrived a little after dark. the property taken at the fight was set up & sold & brought between two & three thousand dollars we had four. men slightly wounded & one of our men ran away and was never heard of until we got to Gonzales about seventy five miles
Thos. J. Rusk. [Endorsed] Anecdotes by
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Gen Lamar
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Gen Rusk-
No. 1635
[183-?, M. B. LM,fARJ. ANECDOTE 0Ji 7 THE BATTLE OF CONCEPCION 2 ~ Anecdote After the Battle of Conception, a Priest came out to bury the dead; the privilege of course was granted; Austin had some conversation with him; the priest promised further conference next day; accordingly he came, and it was arranged between him & Genl Austin, that the 1\Iexi, can force was to ·march out of the fort & surrender; they were to pre- sent the buts of their guns as signal of surrender. The priest departed
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