A peculiar condition arose when we were trying to locate the exact limits of the Concepcion battleground. Plenty of bullets from the wide-mouth Mexican muskets were found but not a single Texan rifle bullet could be discovered. This was indeed a puzzle, so we again had recourse to reports and biographies on this battle. All had found lodgment in the body of an enemy. We, at one time staked out Jack Hay's Bandera Indian battle by searching for bullet marks on the rocks with a reading glass.
Bullets locate a battlefield.
If a battlefield happens to have been overgrown by a city or town, its finding offers new problems but no greater obstacles. Every house within the vicinity was visited and its occupants questioned. Finally, a man was found who said that when a certain person was having a cellar dug an old cowbell had been found. Cellars are a comparatively rare thing in the South, so we had no trouble in finding the owner. As many burros had been killed in this fight, this bell was doubtless from the neck of one of them, and our battlefield was located enough for the purpose of the moment.