J>APlmS OF l\f IRAIJEAU BUOKAPARTE LAMAR
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Col_ Gran~ Prepared and started with twenty five men to Surprise him takrng with him the Person who Gave the information which was one of nodrigues own men the got to the place at night which was very lat~ m~d found all · fast a sleep, on calling to them to Surrender or their hves would be taken if resist the all answered . . . r muti- la~~l] the Collected all their horses and marched them to [Sanl Pa- tr1c10 where the treated all well and took the Comdt to t.heir own quarters in the Course of three days the all made their escape no Guard being Placed over them. Col. Grant and Johnson prepared then to go to Matamoros from Information the red. from them that if they would go the would get a great majority to join them, and that ther was two hundred men ready in wait for them out in the Co_untry under the command of Capt. Canales [at] Comargo; and by g?mg to that place the would get all the people of the towns on the no Grande to Join them Grant I mediately Proposed to go on but through the interfarence of his friends who stated to him and Col. Johnson Major ?\-!orris (another of]fleer that if the went the need never loock [to return tha]t it was only a plan of the enemy to get them [there and] to destroy them and that at the same time. the [were] placiug to much confidence in mexicans which [were actmg 1 as spies. that it would be better for them [to return] to the main army or to remain where the ware the then preposed going out to some ranchos on the Rio Grande to obtain horses for the army, on the day Previous to there doing So Capt. Cooke with a Company ~o'?e after the cavalry by orders of Col. Fanning which got to the M1ss10n, and to take them to Goliad which was done. Cols. Johnson & Grant proceeded and on crossing the Rio Nueces, there come an other Spie of the enemys to them Stating as heretofore that the Could with Safety take l\Iatamoros the proceeded until! the Got to a. ranch Called Santa rosa, where the got about one hundred good horses where the com- pany deviclecl. Col. Johnson with one half returned with the horses to San Patricio, and Grant with the other Part went up the Country to where he understood there was more horses. Col. John. after his return Sent the horses out to a ranch i:ome few miles from town under the care of Some Volunteers and Mexicans the rest was sta- tioned in three different houses, (Cap]t. Thos. K Pearson with Eight ~en was lodged on the Public Square and at a bout Eighty yards fi:>m l11m the other fiYe . . . (mutilated] hundred yards from hun, Several mexicans come in during the day, but all giving the Same information that there was no fear of an enemy Coming. When_ on th~ D?-orning of the third day 4 A. l\f. all laid down to ~leep httle thmkmg it would be the last for Some when on the mornmg of the third Night at 4 A. l\I. the place was Surrounded by about four 450 cavalry. Col. Johnson on behw asked to Surrender by the enemy which was at the front of his 0 Place was answered from within by )fr Daniel Toler a Partner of Col. Grunts who came a few days before from the Interior of l\fexico that he would Surrender, but at the Snme time opened the back of his tent and Got to )fission of Refug-io next clay 12 A. )f. without hat, Shoe or Cont. (Col. J~hnsou. n. 'l'o_ll•r L_ove and )filler) Capt . . [mutilntecl] when hrmg 11::kctl to g1re lnmself .up he answered rmutilntedl co~umeucc~I. to fire en- couragemg his men to do [mutilated] d1cl the l\1llccl a ~lex•
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