Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-09

Dickinson, n OF Sherman g men, ana
one of those shooting the Mexicans as
they put their heads up, said: 'Col
Wharton, if Jesus Christ would come
Town from heaven and order me to quit
shooting yellow bellies, I wouldn t,
sir Col. Wharton put his hand on his
sword, Joe Dickinson Immediately
stepped back q few steps and cooked his
rife. Col. Wharton, very discreetly I
thought, turned his horse. The fellow
would nave as soon shot him as not.
Dickinson was q great fellow to go around
the camp and talk and was nicknamed
Kentuck. Col. Almonte, first aide to
! Santa Anna, succeeded in getting the
men to throw away their military caps
and guns and collected them in the edge
of the timber, when ne put his white
handkerchief on the end of a bayonet
and moved it to a half dozen of our cav
airy who were in advance This ended
the slaughter. What had aroused the
ire of our men and caused their persist
ence. in killing all the Mexicans they met
was the coming into our camp of three
men who had escaped from the massacre
of Col. Fannin and his men, which had
occurred on the 27th of March. It was
after shutdown when we returned to
camp with the prisoners. About the
L1IOhlO VI IL oANO4 LOOA Va NhO S@AA
James a. Sylvester, q sergeant in the
company brought by Sherman from New
port and Cincinnati, called the Newport
volunteers, (this same sergeant had the
only flag our army had, and it a been
presented to his company before It left
the states by the ladies of Newport-the
same flag is now in possession of one OF
Sherman IS daughters, now living in Gal
%vestou) was one of six men returning
from Vinces bayou, where they had been
capturing Mexicans, when they saw a
man rise up from the grass and Sylves-
ter and q man by the name of Mathews
went out to the man who proved q Mex
lean. Sylvester took the Mexican up be-
hind him, having no idea then that ne
was even an officer. The Mexican was
dressed in disguise in q brown linen suit,
brown linen jacket, a black sailor cap
and old brogan shoes, not mates and
without strings in them. Sylvester
handed him over to the officers of the
camp guard and the officers started with
him to put him among the other prison.
ers. When he came in sight of the other
prisoners several of them were imprudent
enough to exclaim, "El P~residente.'
(Gen. Santa Anna) Some of the Mexican
officers shouted to the prisoners who had
uttered the exclamation, "Qui la baca,
qui la baca.' (Shut your mouth, shut
your MOUTH. This let it out that the
Mexican Sylvester had brought was Santa
Anna, and Col. Hockey n Major Ben
Fort Smith being there took charge of
him, and carried him to where Gen.
Houston was lying. The guard hurrahed
and the army took it up, and l went
from my camp fire, which was about
forty steps from where Gen. Houston
was lying on a mattress, which had been
brought from Zarola house. I sup
posed Santa Anna had been captured.
Col. Hockey SAID "Gen. Houston here
is Santa Anna Gen. Santa Anna said
in Spanish: Il thought then n believe
now 1 was the only person present who
understood Santa Annals speech to Gen.
Houston). ''Yo sole Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna, p%residente de Mexico,
~comandante en- jefe del execito de oper-
aciones y me pongo a la dispositions del
v%aliantes. Gen. Houston guiro ser tatadO
como deber ser un general quando es
prisoners de guerra. His speech IN
English was: 81 am Antonio Lopez de
santa Anna, president of Mexico, COM
mander in chief of the army OF opera
tlons, and l put myself at the disposition
OF the brave Gen. Houston. l wish to
be treated as a general hould be when a
prisoner of war; At the close of his
speech Gen. Houston rose up On his right
arm, Che was then suffering from a
wound received the day before, a ball
having passed between the bones of his
leg three inches above the ankle joint)
and said: "Ah! An indeed, Gen. Santa
Anna! Happy to see You, general, take
a seat, take q seat,' moving his hand
TO an old tool chest near by. Just after
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Gen. Houston, Col. John A. Wharton,
adjutant general Of the army, and young
Lorenzo de Zavola walked up and Zavola
went forward and spoke to Gen. Santa
Anna, whom he had known in the City
of Mexico. Zavola was acting as volun-
teer aid to Gen. Houston. He was the
son of Lorenzo de Zavola, vice-president
of the republic of Texas. ZavOla having
been educated in English in New York
acted as interpreter for Gen. Houston.
1t was not long before Santa Anna, by
request of Col. Thomas j.. Rusk, secre-
tary of war, was removed a short dis
tance from where TEL Houston was ly-
ing. Col. Rusk asked Santa Anna if he
would prefer having Col. Almonte, (who
was a prisoner and first aide to Santa
Anna), as interpreter. He expressed a
wish to have him and Col Almonte
came. In the course of conversation be-
tween Gen. Santa Anna and Col. Rusk,
Santa Anna proposed TO issue an order
to Fllisola ordering him to leave Texas
with the army. Col. Rusk told him his
second in command would not obey an
order from him, as he was a prisoner
and had no right to issue orders to him
(Filisola). santa Anna replied through
Almonte that such was the attachment
of the officers and soldiers of the army
to him, (Santa Anna) they would obey
anything he told them to do. Gen.
Rusk then said, "Col. Almonte, tell
Gen. Santa Anna to order Filisola and
army to surrender as prisoners of war;
Santa AIMS replied that he was but a
single Mexican aud would do nothing
which would be a disgrace to him or his
nation, and they could do with him as
they liked. He said ne was willing to
issue an order to Filisola to leaYe Texas.
1t was finally decided that he should do
so, aud the order was issued. Gen Fill
isola acknowledged he was willing to ac-
cept the order and march his army out OF
Texas. After receipt of the dispatch
from Sen. Filisola saying he would move
his army out of Texas, Col. Rusk dis
patched some twenty couriers in all di-