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Dugald McFarlane
nothing left for him to do but order a retreat, which he did, the
fexicans in pursuit. He reached the Brazos and embarked some
of the guns, carriages, and men; tihe ferryboat was not nearly
large enough to cross all at one trip, time was too precious to
waste, so they could not wait to load the other guns, as the river
was on a boom at the time, and the current very strong. It would
have jeopardized the lives of the soldiers too much to risk the
loading of the other guns, so my father ordered them sunk in
the muddy, turbid stream, where they were completely lost in
the mud. The Brazos resembles the Mississippi in the turbidity
of its waters during a freshet, as the mud boils up from the
bottom. So it was not when General Urrea invested Brazoria that
the cannon were sunk, but it may have been at this time that the
Masons had to meet under a liveoak tree, as they had no lodge
room.'
Dugald McFarlane seems to have continued in the army after
the battle of San Jacinto, which, by giving victory to the Texans,
had caused many soldiers to feel that they were justified in return-
ing to their homes. His name occurs as captain of artillery in
the list of appointments sent by President Sam Houston to the
Senate for approval on May 10, 1837, and, in the Secret Journals
of the Senate of the Republic of Texas, these names are printed
under the heading, "A List of Officers actually in the Service of
the Army of the Republic of Texas."2
In 1842 McFarlane returned to civic life, and we find him
representing Matagorda county in the Congress of the Republic
of Texas during 1842-43. At this time he was known as Colonel
McFarlane, and when the war between the United States and
Mexico broke out in 1846, he again enlisted in military service.
His son also entered the service of the United States at this time
and was adjutant of a New York regiment during the Mexican
War.
'In a reminiscence of Masonry in Texas written by a distinguished
member of the order the following words were used: "In March (1836)
Brazoria was abandoned. Urrea soon took possession of the place at
the head of a detachment of the Mexican army, and the records, books,
jewels and everything else belonging to the lodge were utterly destroyed
by them and our members scattered in every direction. See Proceedings
of the Grand Lodge of Texas, 5837-5853, Vol. I, page 7.
According to the Diary kept by General Urrea, he occupied Columbia
and its Port at four o'clock on the afternoon of April 2], 1836, and on
the 22d marched to Brazoria, which he reached at 10 a. m. of the same
day. "See pp. 25 and 26 Diario Militar del General Jose Urrea Durante
La Primera Campania de Texas, 25-26."
2See the Journals just cited, pages 44-45.287
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