Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-03-04
THE MASSACRE AT G0LIAD.

Blackwood is publishing series of ex-
tracts from a work, "a Campaign in Tex
as" which appeared last year in Leipsic,
rromthe pen OF Van II. Ehrenberg, a young
German, who served through the brieL but
terrific struggle in 1888, between Texas
and Mexico, and who took part in some Of
the most fearful scenes of that campaign,
/ being likewise one of the ;hree or four
who escaped-Gom the treacherous massa-
ere at Golad, where Fannings men were
murdered by order Of Santa Anna. Ehren-
berg gives the suhjoined account of the
scene, which we know will be read with
interest, though the incidents are TO some
already familiar:
"Alter the names had been called, the
order 10 march was given, and we filed
out the gates of the fortress, the Grays
taking the lead. Outside the gate we
were received by two detachments OF
Mexican infantry, who marched along on
either side of us, IN the same order a our
selves. We were four hundred in number
and the enemy seven hundred, not inclu-
ding the cavalry, of which numerous small
groups were scattered abont the prairie.
,.'''' U!'0O ~ No. L,,,oI,a,,
'he u''e0''oti We i'aO "',I,I ,I P''o'' I'o7
.he roau 10 r'ol'1' n'o 'ul 10" ~
out upon [ehtc"on We coh0'uu'u ''I"' VIZ!
were conducting Us to some eastern port,
thence to be shipped 10 New Orleans,
"hlch' upon 'he Wio'e' va was Po'""P' VIZ
oeS' ana sHoI'eS' PId"' "''0 " q, 90 '0'''1
'hIhg, however, III 'he 'Io'0"'u S''V"o1 II u
'he mexican Solu'elS' W i'o a'' "s"1''y W..
ceaSlhg c""''oIoIs' "'"' I''S P'.''' '''' ~" "
iee!hS ol uhGasil'eS' a"" anA'sy' , l, - "s
ike lohefal march, ana i"'y "'sI'' II 80
De calieu; iIcSeH,y l |'."S" ,1'y NC" "
see Il hlILeI PCoPIc Li'o J'''''''' a''u " Wv
,nai.hnDsot ",aish'" ' ne,hor lhcv nor Fanuing's
men, Of lbe battalion. were to be seen.
,rbo,, bod sono,otod 4 fran, re without our
.J 49, ',,.a,,. ,,..,l,
oUSeL'lh9 l'' anu "'0 oo'".'''','"' :" '''t
which | was marching consisted only OF
the Grays and few Tc%an coLonlsts.
Glanclng at the escort, their full dress
Uniform and the absence OF al! baggage
now lor The hr@t lIme struck me- lAough'
OF The bloody scenes that had occurred al
iampIco' Dan fa'ficlo' anu 'le Alaho' VI
'ne Ia'Se anu crucI c"a'"oIeT Vi ''ose ~,
whose power we were anu was s0l%eu
WIN PreSenIiIllenI ot e.l. ol q 'no m
'''eIi' " "' "oo"' ~ 0o'''''' I'''0','o "Iy az
PLehtHSIon9 W my C"'n'" "''S' ou' "UP0'
which never dles' again caused NE 'aNe d
more cheering view OF my sl'ua"o"
NeVerlheIeS$' ana III ofuer 10 oe prepared
Tor the worst, and III case oI need: TO De
unlncumbered III my moVemehIS'l watched
my opportunity ana threw away among
the grass OF the prairie bundle contain
ing lew thing' lhal 'iie 'hleVish MeA'-
cans allowed me 10 reIaIh'
A quarter of an hour had elapsed since
our departure from the fort, when suddenly
the command was given III Spar ~
wheel to the left, leaving, III iodG anu
rs we did not uni --1'aIiu 'iio nc VI luo.' VIZ
officer W. "a ''Cnt IT u SiioM "io 10y a"r
N. com Pahioh lolio"eu "',''ou' ''A
any particular notce OF lhe chan5e OF u
recuon' our lel' ran llusNe' "euS'
five or SIX ieet IN heigh', al fIg',' a"g'eS
with the river San Antona, which tlowed
at about thousand PAGES from US, between
banks thirty or forty feet high, and OF
which banks the one on the near side OF
( the river rose nearly perpendicular out OF
the water. We were maching along the
side Of the hedge towards the stream, and
suddenly the thought flashed across US,
"Why are they taking US in this dlrec-
tion?' The appearance of number oI
lancers cantering about the fields on the
right, also startled US; and just then the
soldiers who had been marching bet" cen