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of the Committee of Vigilance and Safety of Nacogdoches,
Texas. He said further:
During our whole route from Natchitoches to this place, we have been
received with open arms, and treated with distinguished respect. At St.
Augustine we were met at some distance from the town by the inhabitants
and escorted to our quarters.... Thence we proceeded to Nacogdoches where
we were received with demonstrations of particular good will and quartered
in the house of the chairman of the COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE AND
SAFETY. All our wants have been kindly attended to by citizens of this
place--baggage wagons, carriages for our sick, arms, ammunition, and
provisions furnished us.26
After a rest at Nacogdoches Wyatt and his company, relieved
from the fatigue of their trip and filled with new zeal and de-
termination, proceeded across Texas. They reached Washing-
ton-on-the-Brazos late in December, 1835. On January 12,
1836, they were dispatched to relieve Captain Philip Dimitt
and became, for the time being, the only garrison at Goliad.
Wyatt joined the volunteers at Refugio about January 22, after
which time his company, for various reasons, dwindled rapidly.
Soon after its arrival at Goliad, James W. Fannin organized a
voluntary artillery force, and six of Wyatt's men were trans-
ferred to this new group. Many of the men grew discouraged,
and when Wyatt returned to Alabama in February, twelve of
his men resigned and accompanied him. Six others were granted
furloughs; thus the number was reduced to approximately
thirty-four.
In addition to the Huntsville Company of Colonel Wyatt and
numerous individual volunteers, Alabama furnished three other
sizable companies for service in the Texas Revolution. The
first was the Red Rovers, so-called from the color of their
jeans uniforms, under the command of Captain Jack Shackel-
ford. This company, numbering approximately fifty-five,27 was
enlisted largely at Courtland and Tuscumbia, Alabama, and was
26Peyton S. Wyatt to the editor of the Southern Advocate, December 10,
1835, in Southern Advoate, January 19, 1836.
27The number quoted is that given in the Telegraph and Texas Register.
The number was sixty-six, according to Harbert Davenport, and sixty-two,
according to John C. Duval in his book, Early Times in Texas (Reprint,
Austin, 1935), 248, 249. J. J. Linn, in his Reminiscences of Fifty Years in
Texas (Reprint, Austin, 1935), gives the same number as the Telegraph.
The exact number constituting this or any other Alabama company in the
Texas Revolution cannot be arbitrarily fixed for reasons generally known.
In the first place, the muster rolls were burned at San Felipe in 1836, and
in the second place, the personnel of the various organizations was daily
undergoing change.322
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