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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Colonel Fannin wrote happily from Copano, on the 4th, of his
plans for an effective Matamoros campaign. He was disillusioned
by a letter from Major R. C. Morris, on February 6. Morris, com-
manding the Grant and Johnson party then at San Patricio,
sent definite advices of Urrea's arrival at Matamoros and of the
extraordinary measures undertaken by General Santa Anna to
overwhelm the small Texan garrison at B6xar. A few days later
Colonel Fannin also learned that the Tamaulipas, in attempting
to sail from the mouth of the Brazos with Captain Turner's two
companies and the Texan army's stock of powder, shoes, clothing,
and ordnance supplies, had been cast away on the Brazos bar; and
that the Emeline was also lost, in Matagorda Bay, with her
cargo of flour and corn. The other provision schooner, Caroline,
discharged her cargo, February 14, at Cox's Point.
As a result of these mishaps, Captain Turner's men never came
to Goliad, nor were the men with Colonel Fannin, many of whom
had marched on foot from Natchitoches, Louisiana, to Refugio,
and thence back to Goliad, without a change of shoes or raiment,
ever adequately supplied with clothing or shoes. And the Matta-
wamkeag had been seized as a pirate by the British in the
Bahamas and was detained at Nassau for two months. This expe-
dition finally sailed for New Orleans, arriving there February 12.
Even so, it should have joined Colonel Fannin in March, but
never did.
As early as February 7, Colonel Fannin decided to withdraw
his small army to Goliad and look to the Lavaca, instead of Copano,
as his base of supplies. New Orleans underwriters refused to
insure vessels or cargo consigned via Aransas; and, with the enemy
in force at Matamoros, Colonel Fannin had also concluded that
Aransas Pass was unsafe. By February 12 he had concentrated
all his forces at Goliad, except the companies of Captains Cooke
and Burke, sent forward to San Patricio, February 7, to support
Major Morris; and Captain Duval's Company, which had also
marched to San Patricio on February 12, escorting teams and
carts, to enable Captain Cooke to bring off a large quantity of
ammunition, and three cannon, left behind at the Irish village
by Johnson and Grant.
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