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cannister, accompanied with others of musketry, ther firing was kept up for some time when Poor Dawson and most of his company fell. Some escaped & a few taken prisoners, amongst them Mr S __. The graves of these citizen soldiers are in the "Mott", and the bones of the Mexicans they killed be around bleaching in the sun.

 After the next day the affair with Dawson was fought the bank of the Salado under Caldwell; his brave band had pretty good cover on the Eastern bank of the river, each man took to his tree.   General Woll & the Mexicans on a height in front of them.  Major H - I believe brought ? fight. There the  enemy's infantry came up to within thirty or forty yards of the Texans, let fly vollies of Musketry - which provided no fatal effect; but each rifle shot brought its man down. Now was the time for the Mexicans to charge but they did not, they were panic struck