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retired to San Patricio, where they remained till Fannin arrived
at Refugio.
While these efforts were being directed against the expedition,
Fannin was proceeding to his undertaking with all possible haste.
On January 21, 1836, only three days after the schedule time as
announced in his call to the volunteers,67 he wrote the governor
and council that if the weather permitted their crossing the bar,
he hoped to embark about two hundred and fifty of the Georgia
Battalion of Permanent Volunteers at Velasco for Copano."
These, he reported, were only a part of his force, for at Matagorda
there were "near 100" more under Captain Shakleford.9 He had
sent forward officers to get teams and carts to transport the camp
equipage to the ,place of rendezvous at San Patricio, and now he
urged the sending of provisions and volunteers to Copano. He
also called attention to the fact that Galveston Island and Pass
Caballo should be fortified with the cannon already on hand, and
said that volunteers for this express purpose should be raised,
declaring that it was folly to expect such work to be accomplished
by regulars," and adding: "You may rely upon it that we will
not have 1000 of them in Texas by May--and if this expedition
prospers as contemplated, you need not desire it."
In this letter he also expressed a willingness to serve under Gen-
eral Houston, if that officer would obey the wishes of the Council.
The expedition started on January 24,71 and on the fourth day
of February debarked at Copano. The next day they marched
to Refugio.
"Fannin had trouble in securing boats; but finally engaged the Colum-
bus and the Flora. He himself went on the Invincible.
"The number is not exact. In his letter of January 28, he stated that
he had about 200.
"6Fannin to the Governor and Council, January 21, 1836. Lamar
Papers.
Shackleford was a physician from Courtland, Alabama, who collected
a company of about sixty men, and came to Texas to fight in the Revo-
lution. He landed at Matagorda in the latter part of January, 1836,
but did not go by boat to Copano with Fannin, as Fannin expected.
Instead, he went overland to Goliad, by the way of Texana and Vic-
toria, reaching Goliad on February 12. He surrendered with the other
volunteers on the retreat from Goliad, but his life was spared because
he was a physician. He had a son, however, who was massacred.
"The number of "regulars" at no time during the Revolution possibly
exceeded one hundred men. THE QUARTEBLY, IX, 235.
l"J. S. Brooks to Mary Ann Brooks, March 4, 1836. THE QUABTERLY,
IX, 3, 187.182
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