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from 8 to 15 leagues per day over a verry rough and barren road
without water sometimes all day. Through the hot sun after our
escape from the guard and recapture it was the order of Santa
Anna for us all to have been shot but through the influence of the
American and English ministers it was remited to every tenth
man we all having to draw beans from a covered pot containing
176 Seventeen of which was Black (those drawing the Black were
executed) the remaining part of two hundred and forty two men
which was taken at Mier 26 of them was wounded and some others
left sick on the road on the morning on which we made our escape
from the guard there were in all 214 men but in the break four
were killed and three badly wounded and fourteen having refused
to join us there was but 192 men attempted to escape. Out of that
number but 176 were retaken most of the missing having died on
account of water perhaps some one or two might have reached
Texas as I stated before our sentence was death so soon as we
should be caught but owing to the condition in which we was
taken having been seven days without a drop of water and nearly
famished our captors took compassion on us and sent a petition
to Santa Anna to pardon us which was the cause of our being
kept until the order came to shoot but every tenth man although
the citizens of Saltilla showed to us their kindness in petitioning
for our lives yet it was the influence of the before named ministers
that saved us. After the death of our unfortunate companions we
were started for this City a journey of 32 days. We have suffered
a great deal on account of provisions not getting more to eat
in one day than you eat at one meal. Since our arrival at this
place we have not done anything as yet there not being chains
on hand sufficient to chain us but in two or three days we are to
be chained two and two and to work in the Streets of Mexico
like common fellons of this country. I have not got a single shirt
to my back nor scarcely anything in the shape of pantaloons. Nor
have I any prospect of getting things. Those who received money
from their friends in the States can get along verry well but those
that have none suffer. When I was first taken I had money sufficient
to have done me eighteen months but it was all taken from me
and I was left to suffer. If you could send me some assistance while
I remain in prison by sending me a small amount in money say
$400 So soon as I am released I will repay it with a hundred
per cent. I have sufficient property in Texas to pay it twenty times
over but as I have not an opportunity of getting it from there
I am under the necessity of calling upon you for some little as-
sistance to alleviate my sufferings If you could send me a little
money as I said before so soon as I am at liberty I will repay it.
It would have to be paid to some house in New York that either
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