Three Years in Texas: Including a View of the Texan Revolution, and an Account of the Principle Battles
Book Details
Author(s)Joseph E. Field
PublisherSteck
ISBN / ASINB00VDSTQBC
ISBN-13978B00VDSTQB2
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
The author of this book arrived in Texas in the early 1830s and joined Texian forces when the Texas Revolution broke out. He served under Col. Fannin during the The Battle of Coleto, which was fought on March 19 -20,1836, during the Goliad campaign of the Texas Revolution. After the Alamo fell to Santa Anna's forces the Texians received orders from General Sam Houston to fall back to Victoria and abandon Fort Defiance. Fannin therefore abandoned the fort but proceeded without adequate supplies and without haste on his retreat and when attacked by Mexican forces out in the open, he was eventually forced to surrender. The author was among the prisoners forced back into Fort Defiance, but he was fortunate to escape prior to the Goliad Massacre on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, when Fannin and about 340 other Texan prisoners were shot by Mexican soldiers.
Excerpt from book:
"On the night of the sixth of March I arrived at La Bahia de Goliad, having travelled seventy miles alone, through a country so beset with Indians as to make it necessary to ride by night. Here I found Col. Fannin, to whom I reported myself, he having, at the approach of the enemy, fallen back to the fort at the above place. On the morning of the 19th, in pursuance of an order from Gen. Houston, we commenced a precipitate retreat, in the direction of Guadaloupe Victoria, for the purpose, if possible, of reaching the camp; the general army. But after having marched nine miles, we were overtaken and surrounded by a Mexican force of eighteen hundred, most of whom were mounted. Our situation was very unfortunate, being in the midst of that large prairie, in a place where the ground was much lower than that around us. We were also without water, which is the greatest of necessaries, especially for the wounded. The enemy having closed around us, upon every side, made a general charge but were repulsed with great slaughter. They rallied and charged again and again; but at every succeeding charge with less vigor, until night came and put an end to the carnage."
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Excerpt from book:
"On the night of the sixth of March I arrived at La Bahia de Goliad, having travelled seventy miles alone, through a country so beset with Indians as to make it necessary to ride by night. Here I found Col. Fannin, to whom I reported myself, he having, at the approach of the enemy, fallen back to the fort at the above place. On the morning of the 19th, in pursuance of an order from Gen. Houston, we commenced a precipitate retreat, in the direction of Guadaloupe Victoria, for the purpose, if possible, of reaching the camp; the general army. But after having marched nine miles, we were overtaken and surrounded by a Mexican force of eighteen hundred, most of whom were mounted. Our situation was very unfortunate, being in the midst of that large prairie, in a place where the ground was much lower than that around us. We were also without water, which is the greatest of necessaries, especially for the wounded. The enemy having closed around us, upon every side, made a general charge but were repulsed with great slaughter. They rallied and charged again and again; but at every succeeding charge with less vigor, until night came and put an end to the carnage."
This book published in 1836 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
