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ZBU TEXaS ALMANAC.
are all worn out. My ammunition and provisions are about run out, and, as
it is impossible now to reach me with reinforcements or provisions, I can hold
out but a few days longer, but their victory shall be equal to a defeat.-
Farewell. TRAVIS."
The Alamo fell on the 6th day of March. I was told by the Mexican Gen.
Cos, whom we took prisoner at San Jacinto, " that Travis had weakened their
army at the Alamo at least 1,500 men."
On the adjournment of the Convention which was on the 18th of March,
1836, I went immediately to the army, where I remained until the last hostile
Mexican was driven beyond the Rio Grande, and participated in every battle
both with Mexicans and Indians, that I have any knowledge of, and without
any compensation, even for heavy losses. When I went into the army I had
a fine stock of goods and was quite independent. When I left the army at
the end of the war I was almost naked and without a dollar.
I know men at this time, who never rendered one hour's service, whom the
Government paid from $20,000 to $30,000 for losses of goods that I could
ahuost have carried at one load. I speak what I know; and these same men
went to Austin last winter and drew a pension, while I have never received
a dime. I have been wounded, I have hazarded my life, sacrificed my prop-
erty, suffered all sorts of privations, and devoted my whole time to the country
during her early troubles, and am now left an old man, crippled with rheu-
matism, and with a large family of daughters to support by my labor, for I
have no son.
But I must now conclude this little sketch, which I have been obliged to
write at catch piece-meal moments, and you will find it rather a confused
mass, but if you think it of sufficient interest to publish, please put it in as
good shape as possible. Had I time, and was not so nervous, I could give you
a correct sketch of our entire revolution.
Yours respectfully, W. B. SCATES,
Near Osage, Colorada county, Texas.
AN ESCAPE FEOM THE ALAMO.
PRAIRIE PLAINS, GRIMES COUNTY, TEXAS, May 7th, 1871.
Editor Texas Ahlmnac :
I regard the following account worthy of preservation, as it embraces a
report of the last scene in the Alamo that has ever been made known to the
survivors of those who fell in that fortress.
Moses Rose, a native of France, was an early immigrant to Texas, and
resided in Nacogdoches, where my father, Mr. Abraham Zuber, made his
acquaintance in 1827. I believe that he never married. My father regarded
and treated him as a friend, and I have often heard him say that he believed
Rose to be a man of strict veracity. In 1830, I saw him several times at my
father's residence, in what is now San Augustine county. He was then about
forty-five years old, and spoke very broken English.
Rose was a warm friend of Col. James Bowie, and accompanied or followed
him to the Alamo in the fall of 1885, and continued with him till within three
'days of the fall of the fort.
During the last five days and nights of his stay, the enemy bombarded the
fort almost incessantly, and several times advanced to the wall, and the men
within were so constantly engaged that they ate and slept only at short
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