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292 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
On the march from San Felipe to Groce's, Houston declared that he did
not intend to march to the Red Lands.
At Groce's, there was open talk among both officers and men of deposing
the commander, in case he continued his retreating policy.
The writer believes that, at the fork of the road below McCurley's, the
army took the Harrisburg road without any order from Houston.
About seventy-five effective men were left in camp at Harrisburg to
guard between 150 and 200 sick. The rest of the army, about 800 strong,
marched in pursuit of the Mexicans.]
I was in Mexico when hostilities commenced between her and
Texas. I arrived at home (twenty-two miles above San Felipe)
between the 15 and 20 of February, 1836-a few days previous
to which time my neighbors had organized themselves into a com-
pany-having elected Robert McNutt captain and Gibson Kuyken-
dall and John Burleson lieutenants.
A few days afterwards an express from Travis reached San
Felipe with the intelligence that the Mexican army under Santa
Anna had commenced siege of the Alamo, and urging his country-
men to repair to his assistance with all possible dispatch. Gov't.
responded to his call by ordering the various companies which
had been organized to march forthwith towards San Antonio. Gon-
zales was designated as the point of general rendezvous. I enrolled
myself in Capt. McNutt's company, which took up the line of
march on the evening of the first day of March, 1836. On the
morning of the 2d March, we formed a junction with Capt.
Moseley Baker's company from San Felipe. Both companies were
infantry, and each had a baggage wagon. The night of the third
of March, we slept at Rocky creek, twenty miles west of the Colo-
rado, where we were joined by Capt. Thomas Rabb's company, from
Egypt, on the Colorado, and on the morning of the 6th we reached
Gonzales, where we found two companies, towit, Capt. Billingsley's
from Bastrop and Capt. Sherman's from Kentucky. On the 7th
another company (Capt. Hill's) arrived from Washington, on the
Brazos. The companies of Sherman and Billingsley were encamped
on the west bank of the river. The other companies encamped in
the bottom, on the east bank of the Guadalupe, about a mile below
the village of Gonzales, and less than half that distance below the
ferry. Capt. Baker was chosen by the heads of companies to take
charge of our little force until the arrival of a superior officer. We
were in total ignorance of the fall of the Alamo, and hoped it would
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