Original sentence: Immediately Independence was boarded, the officers and crew of Independence, aswell as Wharton were taken prisoner.Shipped away and then barred away in Matamoras, all of the prisoners eventually escaped or were released by the Mexican government
Edited sentence: Barred away in Matamoras, all of the prisoners eventually escaped or were released by the Mexican government.Immediately Independence was boarded, the officers and crew of Independence, aswell as William Wharton and a half dozen other civilian passengers.They Texan fightingmen were taken prisoner