Posted on 03/21/2010 7:20:51 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The Battle of San Jacinto
As related by DeWitt Colonist Creed Taylor to James T. DeShields and published in "Tall Men With Long Rifles" 1935.
The morning of April 21 dawned bright and crisp. It was to be a great day for Texas. From their crude pallets the boys sprang up as if for a joyous holiday. Merry jests went the rounds, and the camp wits spared neither high private nor officers. "If you get bumped off, Bill, won't you will me your coonskin cap?" Tomlinson said to a comrade: "You can take the cap now; I'll wear a Mexican officer's hat on parade tomorrow,"' rejoined the confident comrade. And he was as good as his word, for he did wear a dead Mexican officer's uniform the next day.
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"It was the great Napoleon, I believe, who said "quarter hours decide the destinies of nations." And so it was at San Jacinto."
I appologize to any that are offended by some of the language and references, but it was written in 1935. You cannot judge historic events by current norms of civility.
There are some conclusions in the article that I do not agree with, but it is a very vivid description of the event. The battle is said to have lasted 18 minutes.
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In light of the events that happened in Washington DC yesterday, are we approaching one of those pivital moments in the history of our Nation?
Thank you Sir, for the pic of the only Texas battle flag to fly over the battle of San Jacinto.
We are 1 month away from the anniversary of the battle and events yesterday in DC drove me to make this post early.
God Bless Texas!
I had been thinking allot about the Texas revolution lately, and the conditions that led up to it. I live close to the San Jacinto monument, and go there often.
Remember Goliad. Remember Gonzales. Remember the Alamo.
Texas can do without the other 49.
Great read, thanks for posting this.
Yes, but always Remember "San Jacinto". Too often we forget what that short battle set in motion. Freedom is a condition that MUST be cherished, and protected at all cost.
Truer words were never spoken. You are right. I mentioned only the other three, as those were "battle cries" at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Thank you for posting this. If you make another post on San Jacinto day, be sure and ping me.
I will ping you, because I intend to post again on April 21. Unless someone beats me to it. Not sure what I will post yet, but in light of our current political turmoil, this example is very very important.
My father served in Germany, Belgium and Czechoslovakia. He was an armorer. He maintained quad 50’s and Bofors.
He saw Dachau about 2-3 weeks after liberation.
Then he came back to farm here in Texas and raise his family. A modern day Cincinatus. The family has owned/operated some of the land here for over 110 years.
Some of my ancestors were born in Texas during the Republic.
Thanks for the quote by Thomas J. Rusk. I had never seen it before.
God Bless Texas! And God Bless the United States of America!
Enemies of “We the People” are put on notice. This will end badly for you.
A Yellow Rose bump 4 later when I’m off cell phone.
General Houston and his men followed Santa Anna all across Texas, but when they got here, both armies had climbed into the ring.
Thanks for the photo’s. Great view of the monument with lay of the land.
Thank you very much, I have never seen this wonderful account. I remember when we discovered that Deaf Smith was an ancestor in the ‘70s. We asked my grandma if this was true, and if so, why she had never said anything about it. She replied, “he was just my [great] uncle, we never thought anything about it.”
Now that’s a Texan, God rest her soul.
folks forget, well Texans do not but, after the battle at the Alamo,SantaAna ordered his men to dismember and set fire to the dead and wounded.
Makes me weep just typing this
At close range, the two little cannon, drawn by rawhide thongs, were wheeled into position and belched their charges of iron slugs into the enemy barricade. Then the whole line, led by Sherman's men, sprang forward on the run, yelling, "Remember the Alamo!" "Remember Goliad!" All together they opened fire, blazing away practically point-blank at the surprised and panic-stricken Mexicans. They stormed over the breastworks, seized the enemy's artillery, and joined in hand-to-hand combat, emptying their pistols, swinging their guns as clubs, slashing right and left with their knives. Mexicans fell by the scores under the impact of the savage assault.
General Manuel Fernández Castrillón, a brave Mexican, tried to rally the swarthy Latins, but he was killed and his men became crazed with fright. Many threw down their guns and ran; many wailed, "Me no Alamo!" "Me no Goliad!" But their pleas won no mercy. The enraged revolutionists reloaded and chased after the stampeding enemy, shooting them, stabbing them, clubbing them to death. From the moment of the first collision the battle was a slaughter, frightful to behold. The fugitives ran in wild terror over the prairie and into the boggy marshes, but the avengers of the Alamo and Goliad followed and slew them, or drove them into the waters to drown. Men and horses, dead and dying, in the morass in the rear and right of the Mexican camp, formed a bridge for the pursuing Texans. Blood reddened the water. General Houston tried to check the execution but the fury of his men was beyond restraint.
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