Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-05-22

| What did 1t mean? He did not know;
do not know, unless 1t was sign that
he should take part in two wars for
liberty and right, and that he should live
to to tell it, and that now, ninety years
since 1t was dreamed, should be telling 1t
here upon the spot almost where it was
fulfilled to this happy, peaceful throng,
here joyoQsly basking in the sunshine OF
liberty where there was little else than
savage wilderness, and where now civiIi-
cation is making the wilderness to bios
som as the rose.
Meantime, the policy of trying to starve
out the enemy was not a success. The
Texans were impatient to get back to
their neglected families. They were will
ing to fight, but idleness was irksome to
them; and so the army was falling away
SO rapidly that it was determined, In coun-
Gil of war, to give up the siege and fall
back upon Gonzalez. But still there were
those who wanted to fight; they had come
out to capture San Antonio and were not
willing to return without at least making
the attempt; Ahahuac, Velasco, Gonzalez,
had fallen before them; why not San An
tonic?
| 1t WIS at this juncture that the intrepid
Milan, over whose sacred dust we are now
standing, asked permission to call for
volunteers To make the attack. II was
granted. and STAINING ont in front 1T tho
ranks. he called ont in stentortan tones.
"Boys, who'll follow old Ben Milan into
San Antoniof" Many writer's, in their
account of this circpmatance have sonobt
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