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Updated: July 26, 2025
"You cannot mean that you are of Fannin's command?" "I WAS of Fannin's command. Every man in it has been shot. I escaped by a kind of miracle." The doctor looked at the Senora. She seemed to be asleep. "Speak low," he said, "but tell me all." The man sat upon the floor with his back against the wall. The doctor stooped over him. Antonia and Isabel stood beside their father.
Besides which, Fannin's little army was of the finest material, being composed mostly of enthusiastic volunteers from Georgia and Alabama; young men, who, like Dare Grant and John Worth, were inspired with the idea of freedom, or the spread of Americanism, or the fanaticism of religious liberty of conscience perhaps, even, with hatred of priestly domination.
"The main army hasn't come up yet," he said, in reply to the eager inquiries of the defenders. "Fannin's men may get here in time, and if they are in sufficient force to beat off the cavalry detachment I suggest that we abandon the mission before we are caught in a trap, and retreat toward Fannin. If we linger the whole Mexican army will be around us."
Captain Urrea did not believe in showing any kindness to the men imprisoned in the church. They were rebels or filibusters. They had killed many good Mexicans, and they should be made to suffer for it. No answer was returned to Fannin's letter, and the men in the somber old limestone building became depressed and gloomy.
"Whatever Santa Anna might decree, and if you had seen the red flag of no quarter waving in sight of the Alamo you would know his decree." "And your reply?" "I told him that we meant to hold the place." "Good enough," said King. "Now we will go back to business. I wish that we had more ammunition." "Fannin's men may bring plenty," said Ned.
"It's a long lane that has no news at the end," said Obed White, with an attempt at buoyancy. "That's so," said "Deaf" Smith. "We're bound to hit a trail somehow an' somewhere. We heard that Fannin's men had surrendered an' then we heard that firin'. But I guess that they wouldn't give up, without makin' good terms for themselves, else they would have held out as the boys did in the Alamo."
So Winnie Goligher transferred to Anne Fannin's house, herself and all her worldly goods, which consisted of the clothes she had on, and a prayer-book, and a lame duck, and thenceforward the two "got along the best way they could." Mad Bell's history has more complications in it.
At last the Texans could stand it no longer, and sent out a flag of truce, although against Colonel Fannin's desire. The flag was received, and it was arranged that the Texans should surrender as prisoners of war, to be treated according to the usages of civilised nations. Their arms were then taken from them, and they were marched back to Goliad, and placed in an old church in that town.
When the Colorado was gained, the army went into camp at Burnham's Crossing, and then across the river at Beason's Crossing. Here the general received news of the surrender of Fannin's force, brought by a settler from Goliad.
Houston felt that he would be sufficient for Santa Anna when the spirit of this company was added to the moral force of men driven from their homes and families to fight for the lands they had bought and the rights which had been guaranteed them. So he watched the horizon anxiously for Fannin's approach, often laying his ear to the ground to listen for what he could not see.
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