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Mexicans under Gl Hill is that - Santana behind him to be a smart officer - P to have cross the Rio Grande with 12 to 15,000 Men - go through San Antonio make prisoners - & importantly as the terms the Assizes or Courts were sitting - We had no troops nor spies even on the frontier & this from 40 or 50 more captured. Work now finished on to the Colorado in the hope of crossing it - taking Austin for 24 hours destroying it, & further documents if found & then retreating as quick as possible to Mexico chanting victory - That the Colorado would not permit the Enemy to pass, that our brave Volunteers, a handful of them began to worry the Enemy under Caldwell, Barbson & ? om tirm