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shed its red glare on the few clouds that flitted across 4 
it, the scene assumed an aspect of peculiar solemnity — 
and interest. We lingered long to enjoy the fairy-like — 
vision, and until the fatigues of the day warned us that © 
it was time to retire. 
The sword has truly given place to the plough- — 
share here; and the inclosure which has been the scene _ 
of many a bloody fight, is now employed by the Judge | 
as an experimental garden, in which he has demonstrat- 
ed the capacity of the soil and climate to produce any 
of the great Southern crops of cotton, corn, and sugar, 
as well as the choicest garden vegetables. The church — 
is especially notorious as having been the place where — 
Fannin and his men were confined and massacred. We — 
were fortunate enough to meet with a gentleman, 
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Judge H., who was one of the prisoners, and whose — 
singular escape may be worth relating. 
After the battle of Perdida Creek, between Fannin 4 
and 275 men on one side, and Urrea with 900 Mexi- s 
cans on the other, articles of capitulation were signed, — 
according to which, those who surrendered were tO — 
be treated as prisoners of war, and either released ' 
on parole or sent to some port upon the bay. The — 
articles were drawn up within the Texan lines, and all : 
was arranged in good faith. The prisoners were coD- 
fined within the fortress of Goliad, where they met — 
others of their countrymen, sufficient in number t — 
make up four hundred. When Santa Anna was i — 
formed of their capture, he sent orders for them to be — 
shot. The officers in command remonstrated, but the — 
order was repeated peremptorily. The massacre took — 
place upon the 27th March, 1836, eight days after the 
