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Virginia and the Independence of Texas 279
Among those who took part in the storming of San Antonio, in
December, 1835, was Nathaniel R. Brister of the "New Orleans
Greys," commanded by Captain Samuel 0. lettus, himself a Vir-
ginian. Brister was promoted from the position of sergeant-
major to that of adjutant in this company about the middle of
February, 1836.1 According to one account a Captain Blair of
Conway county and a Dr. lMitcherson, both from Virginia, were
killed in the storming of San Antonio.2
Virginia had her representatives at the Alamo, the following
Virginians being killed there: John J. Baugh, first lieutenant in
Captain Thomas H. Breece's company of Texas Volunteers, and
later a captain ; and a soldier by the name of R. L. Stockton, who
arrived at San Antonio about the same time as Crockett.4 Other
Virginians who were members of Captain Pettus' company were
Allen O'Kinney (or Kenney) and William L. Hunter; the former
is said to have been massacred at Goliad, while the latter is one
of the few who effected a thrilling escape after being left there for
dead upon the field of slaughter." Other Virginians killed at the
time of Fannin's massacre were Henry W. Downman, James Batts,
and James Kemp, all of Duval's company.6
In the Zanesville Volunteer Rifle Company were the following
Virginians: James Perry, first sergeant, from Norfolk; Henry
Sikes, of the same place; John Fisher, of Shenandoah; John A.
Davis, of Surrey county; and John Snelling, of Augusta county.7
Company E, First Regiment of Texas Infantry, Permanent Vol-
'Muster Rolls, General Land Office of Texas, pages 25, 37. Colonel Wil-
liam G. Cooke was also at 'one time captain of the same company.
2Arkansas Gazette, April 12, 1836.
'Muster Rolls, page 37. See THE QUARTERLY, IX, 237.
4THE QUARTERLY, IX, 4, 117, and XIV, 321-322. The Virginia Herald
,of May 4, 1836, contains a list of the names of those who fell at the capture
of San Antonio.
'See Duval, Early Times in Texas, 59.
'Kentucky Gazette, July 7, 1836. The Virginia Herald of June 1, 1836,
,copies from the New Orleans Bee, March 25, 1836, an account of Fannin's
massacre written by a Mexican general. In the Herald of June 18, 1836,
is a detailed account 'of the massacre of Goliad by Z. S. Brooks, one of those
who escaped. The same issue contains a list of the "Red Rovers" who were
put to death on this occasion. In the same journal for August 6, 1836, is
what purports to be an account of an eye-witness of the death of Fannin,
written by Joseph II. Sphon, of New Orleans, who escaped.
'Muster Rolls, page 230. Perry and Davis were shoemakers; Fisher, a
chair-maker; and Snelling, a paper-maker.
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