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Grande, it was alleged that Sam Houston, who was then President
had recalled him, but he gave orders to Colonel [William S.]
Fisher that if he wanted to make an excursion into the country
and take what volunteers were willing to go, they had his permis-
sion to do so; so he raised about two hundred and eighty men
out of the commands There were about seven hundred of us. We
crossed over into Mexico and fought [General Pedro] Ampudia
at Mier, [December 23-24, 1842] and we had him whipped, too,
and they sent a flag of truce and Colonel Fisher very foolishly
listened to him. We had fought him two days and nights, and he
was ready to retreat. He had two of our men prisoners; Sam
Walker was prisoner. They were all ready to retreat, and Fisher
let this flag of truce come in, instead of shooting at it.
They sent it in by one of our prisoners, with a Mexican officer,
and he listened to them; they had a parley and agreed if we would
give up our arms that they would take us down to Matamoros
and ship us to New Orleans-set us all free-and Fisher foolishly
agreed to it. So when we stacked our arms they just came in.
This Ampudia had seven hundred men, and we had only about
two hundred fighting men left, fifty in the camp on the other
side of the river. So as soon as we surrendered or gave up our
arms, why, they just marched us up into a big adobe building
and kept us there.
I belonged then to Captain [Ewen] Cameron's company, a big
Scotchman, a very noted man on the frontier. Old Tom Greene
then was second in command; he said he did not want to listen
to the flag of truce at all; he wanted to shoot the bearer down,
not let him come in at all, but fight our way out and take our
chances.' But Fisher thought it better, and this man Castro,5 you
know, having quite an influence, and friendly towards Texans,
as we supposed, he pledged his honor as an officer that such
would be the case, and Fisher finally surrendered; so they took
us into the adobe building there and stood us up against the
sThree hundred and four, according to Thomas J. Green, Journal of the Texas
Expedition against Mier (New York, 1845), 70. Green, a politician from Texas and
later from California, was one of the Mier prisoners. In a muster roll in the appen-
dix, Trahern is listed as Trehern, G. Washington. Residence Victoria, Nativity,
Mississippi. Ibid., 442-
4Green later wrote that he felt the surrender was unnecessary. Ibid., 112.
SProbably Captain Clemente Castro. Green describes him as a "brave, honour-
able, and good man." Ibid., 117.
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