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were shot as fast as they were brought from the battlefield. Darkness put an end to the carnage, but not for long. Next day the executions con- tinued. By the end of the day I 12 prisoners had been shot. Arredondo resumed his triumphant march to San Antonio, mopping up stragglers as he went. When he arrived in the city the following day he had 215 more prisoners, many of whom were civilians who had espoused the cause of the Revolution. The Republicans left about 1,000 on the battlefield, dead or dying. Arredondo reported his casualties as 55 killed and 178 wounded, many of them in ·a serious condition. Considerable military stores fell into the hands of the Royalists. They took 22 pieces-ranging from one-pounders to eight-pounders, almost 400 English rifles and as many Spanish, some 300 pistols, more than a 1,000 pounds of powder and lead, 800 horses and mules, two flags, and two standards. In his report of the battle Arredondo generously praised his officers and men. Many of those whom he mentioned by name were to become identi- fied with the subsequent history of Texas. There were Colonel Juan Manuel Zambrano, who was wounded; Lieutenant Colonel Christ6bal Do- minguez, soon to be named interim governor of the Province; Surgeon Major Miguel Pages; Captains Antonio Elosua, Antonio Zarate, Manuel Zosaya, Luciano Garcia, Felix Perez, Nicolas Benites, Juan Jose Elgueza- bal, Domingo Ugartechea, Gabriel Arcos; Lieutenants Luis Gomez de . Castrejon, Nicolas del Moral, Juan Maria Martinez, Jose Marfa Ces- pedes, and Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Arredondo declared that Doctor Pages not only removed the wounded from the battlefield under fire to a place of safety to treat them, but he also encouraged the troops as he went among them and even carried munitions to the front line as he returned to the battlefield to bring out more wounded. The chaplains, likewise, exhibited superb bravery in ministering to the dying under fire. Led by Father Miguel Campos, curate of San Fer- nando, Fathers Jose Dario Zambrano, Manuel Camacho, Andres Molano, Francisco Trevino, Florentino Ramos and Jose Antonio Valdes vied with each other in bringing the last comforts of religion to those who fell mortally wounded. 62 The smashing defeat threw San Antonio into a panic. The very after- noon of the battle a motley crowd of some 300 men, women, and children 62 Arredondo to Viceroy Calleja, Bexar, September 13, 1813, Historia, Operacioni,s de Guerra, A"edondo, IV, 156-160, A. G. M.; "An Anonymous Account of the Battle of Medina," Special Agents, II, StaJe Department Records, N. A. W.
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