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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 2203 1845 Nov. 22, THE GALVESTON NEWS, [GALVESTON, TEXAS] Containing: Anderson and others to Lamar (no. 2200), Lamar to Anderson and others (no. 2202), extract from Robinson's propositions regarding an armistice, Bocanegra's Circular (no. 2155), Doyle to Bo• c:anegra (no: 2154), and Houston's Proclamation (no. 2152). 2 p. No. 2204 [1845? Dec. 10], J. M. S[TORMS], [NEW YORK, NEW YORK], TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, GAL- VESTON, TEXAS Sending "two slight articles on Houston" and "the two leaders which gave such umbra[ge to] Mr. Polk and the Union." A. L. S. 1 p. Four clippings inclosed; see nos. 2194, 2196-8.
No. 2205 [1845, M. B. LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXAS] 88
The Battle of Medina was fatal to the Republicans. It was fol- lowed by horrible atrocities. Mr. Navarro tells me that nearly four hundred Americans and an equal number of Mexicans taken in that fight were hung up by the heels and perished in that way. From Bexar to the Trinity the road was strewed with the dead. The people, in numbers, fled from Bexar to the east; they were overtaken on the Trinity by Elisondo who went in [p]ursuit. Hundreds were given to the sword. [Th]e women and children [were] taken back to Bexar; the women were outraged in every possible manner. The atrocities were so horrible as to awaken the vengeance of a man by the name Francisco Serrano, a Spaniard and attached to the Royal cause, but who was so shocked at these barbarities, that he resolved to avenge them; accordingly at the St. Marks, where Elisondo had encamped, this man assassinated Elisondo and the Adjutant Ysidro de la Garza. The Evengar was immediately arrested; but was not executed in con- sequence of his supposed insanity. He was taken to Mexico, confined in the Insane hospitable; and the last intelligence of him was in 1821, when he was still there; it is supposed, however, that he was released at the revolution of that period. His insanity, it is said, was affected to escape punishment. During his march to Mexico, he kept cursing Elisondo & others for murdering the people of the Trinity; and said ihat he done it to please his master the King, who he knew would [neve] r sanction such cruelties-When the prisoners, overtaken on the Trinity, were led out to be shot, they confessed to Padre Borrego, chap- lain of Elisondo's army. He had received a wound in the thigh at the battle of Medina; and as each prisoner made his confession, and asked absolution, this padre would dismiss him by saying, "it is possible that you may have been the one who shot me, and if so, and the Lord have mercy on you. With this insulting reproach from the father, were they all shot.
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