The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 203
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Capt. John Sowers Brooks.
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papers. Santa Anna states his column of attack, in the storming
of the Alamo, at only 1400 men, and admits the loss of but 70
killed and 300 wounded. He states that he buried in the ditches,
more than six hundred of the Texans. This is rather too much
license for even Mexican grandiloquence. It is well known that
Travis' forces did not exceed 180 men. He very probably buried
as many as he reports, but, unquestionably, if he did, two-thirds
of them, or more, were his own dead.
The Nat. Intelligencer, of Monday, infers, from the tenor of the
despatches, that there is no truth in the report of the massacre of
Fannin's battalion of three hundred men. We are sorry to say
that an attentive perusal of the despatches of Gen. Urrea inspires
no doubt of the kind, in our mind. This letter is dated on the
23d of March; one day after the surrender at discretion-terms
having been refused, of Fannin. Now if the editors of the Intel-
liegncer will turn to the account published in their own paper of
the massacre, they will see that it is alleged to have taken place
nine days after the surrender.-There is nothing, however, in the
letters of the Mexican Generals, to weaken confidence in the truth
of the horrible story.- It will be seen, by a paragraph in another
column, that a subsequent fusilade has been perpetrated on a body
of unarmed men, on their way, we presume, to join Houston.
ARENA.
STAUNTON SPECTATOR.
Thursday, June 2, 1836.
From the Louisville (Ky.) Jour. May 13.
Extracts of a letter from Chas. B. Shain, a youth of this city,
who was taken with Col. Fanning, to his father, dated April 11,
at Grover's [Groce's] Crossing, on the Brazos River:
"Dear Father.-I take this opportunity of writing you a few
lines to let you know that I am in existence. I suppose you will
have heard before this reaches you, that I was either taken prisoner
or killed. I was taken prisoner on the 20th of last month, and
kept a week, when all of us, who were taken with Col. Fanning,
besides other prisoners, were ordered out to be shot, but I, with
six otr a t o rv x : iaic-'red and twenty-one, escape. Before
we vrre taken Col. Fanning's party had a battle with the N?7icans
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