Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-09
(By one of the survivors.)

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 San Jacinto is one cf the historic battlefields of the world. Judge Kit trsii. in a review of that conflict urges rot -ithout sound logic that tt was the most important armed conflict on American soil since the surrender Of Cornwallis to Washington at York town. Authorities will differ on that point, but no one familiar with the story of mankind will dispute the as sertion that San Jacinto was one of tho great decisive battles of the worlds history The Saxon seized from Latin an empire larger than Ger many. and forever advanced the stand ards of Saxon civilization from the Sabine to the Rio Grande. Those standards may some time go forward: i: they will never retreat.
 The battle of San Jacinto was fought on April 21. 1s26-noN nearly seventy-threC years ago The num- Der of Mexican troops engaged has never been exactly established Gen eral Sam Houston. in his report from the battle field to President David Burnett of the Republic of Texas. after the battle wrote: About o'clock in the morning of the twenty first the enemy were reinforced by 300 choice troops, under the command of General Cos. increasing their ef- fective force to upward of 5000. while our aggregate force for the field mum bered 7SS.'
 The Action Lasted Eighteen Minutes.
 General Hous on reported that at 3:30 in the evening he ordered the officers of the Texas army to parade their respective commands, having in the meantime ordered the bridge on the only road communicating with the Brazos. eight miles distant from our encampment to be destroyed. thus cut. ting off all possibility of escape" The action. General Houston states, lasted eighteen minutes. The rout. he fur ther relates. began at 4:30. Thus act uai fighting appears to have begun at 4:12 or whereabouts. The Texans had three men killed and twenty wounded. six mortally. The Mexicans lost 630 killed. POS wounded. 7S0 pris oners, among them President-General Santa Anna and General Cos. The fearful losses sustained by the Mexi can army, the capture of their com nlandef and the subsequent scatter ing Of their forces in wild flight, en. abled the Texans thereafter to die tate terms of peace and the Republic of Mexico surrendered to the Repub lie of Texas, without further conflict a region including nearly all of what is now the state of Texas. together with vast area reaching up into the iTesent state of Wyoming An infan, nation. with total population of less than 50,000, had whipped a country with population of more than T.. eco, 900, in single battle, with a total loss of only twenty-three killed and wounded. It is truly doubtful if in any of the pages of recorded time there is an action more extraordinary both in it's character and it's results, than this one down on the wooded banks of Buffalo bayou and the San Jacinto river.
 No American can tread that ercuGd without feeling tffat it belongs to the nation. and is one of the nations proufest heritages. New England set a mighty granite monument on Bunk CT Hin. to mark the spot where Amer. ican farmers first checked foreign foe in an eight-year war Boston has for 2 hundred years guarded with jealous care the Washington Elm, the tree in whose shade General Washing ton took command Of the revolution. ary armies. The cypress under which General Houston was laid, severely wounded, to receive President Santa Anna. is still standing. though un, tended and unprotected close to the waters edge on the south shore of Buffalo bayou.
 Last Survivor Tel!e the Story.
 The writer is moved to these reflec, tions by the receipt of little booklet which the last survivor of the bat tie of San Jacinto tells the story of his part in that event. The booklet comes with the compliments Of MT Y. P. Holx. editor and proprietor of the Mexia Daily News, and the Mexia Weekly Herald. Tn letter to the Chronicle. accompanying the booklet AIr. Houx says:
 The inclosed pamphlet explains it. self: If you will kindly give it a Iii. tle rctice in your book reviews and state that it can De procured from me for twenty-five cents, postage paid, 1t will help the old gentleman to real ize a few dimes from its sale. ! have nc interest in the sale Of the pamph- let except to assist my good old friend for whom I printed the work on pres.