Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-11

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By this time the fire had iei. ~
little of the thIcket that the small
group of fighters took refuge in the
ring they had made around the wound
Ell and the baggage. and begun rails.
ing their breastwork higher with loose
rocks and with earth that they dug
with their knives. The Indians had
succeeded in removing their killed
and wounded under cover of the
smoke. Night was approaching, and.
they had been fighting since sunrise.
The Indians, seeing that the Texans
were still alive and dangerous, drew
off and encanrped for the night with
their dead and wounded. By 10 o'clock
the Bowles has raised their clumsy
rampant breast high; the men filled
their vessels and skins with water.
and waited for the attack which they
supposed the morning would bring.
All night they heard the red men wall
ing over their dead; and at daylight
they shot mortally wounded chief,
as the customs of the tribes pre-
scribed. A little later they retired
with their dead and wounded to a
mountain about mile away. where
a cave served them for shelter and
for tomb. At o'clock two Of the
Texans ventured out from the little
fort, and made their way to the en-
campment where the Indians had
lain the night before, and there they
counted 4S bloody spots on the grass
where their braves had fallen before
Texan rifles. Finding ourselves much
cut up" wrote the Bowies, having
one man killed and three wounded,
five horses killed and three wounded,
we resumed the strengthening of our
little fort, and worked until p. M,
when 13 Indians appeared, but re-
tired again as soon as they discovered
that we were still there. well fortified
and ready for action" The Texans
held their ground eight days, anl then
retraced their march to San Antonio,
where they arrived safely with their
wounded and their horses in IL days.
Nine men and two boys and killed SO
Indians and routed fighting force of
1874.
1t was proper to the ghastly Fitness
of things" that the man who directed
this wonderful fight, and was the
heart and eye and arm behind every
rifle and every knife. should go to
meet his death with Crockett and Ira
Wis in the Alamo. When. on March
8, Travis drew a line with his sword
across the adobe floor, and called on
all those of that desperate little gar
rison who would stay with him to the
death to come over that line to him.
Crockett sprang across tmerr1ly. waV-
ing his ceH and every man of those
about to die" followed him. saluting:
"Te morituri salutamus!" James
Bowie, fast bound in raging fever,
tossing and muttering on his cot in
the little north room of the Alamo
heard the call, and cried for two OF
his comrades to lift the cot and carry
him over that line. 1t was done. and
then they bore him back again to the
little room to die.
It is Madame Candelaria, the Mexi-
can woman who nursed him there,
and who alone Of all that Spartan
band survived. who tells the story.
at is not true" she says, chat Col
onel Bowie was Drained with an AK
He lied in wild delirium In the height
of the awful carnage, several hours
before the Mexican horde burst into
| the Alamo. -. They broke In the
door where watched with Colonestt
Bowie. cried out, in Spanish, that
I was a Mexican woman, and that !
had nursed man who had just died.