The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 25, July 1921 - April, 1922 Page: 138
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us. When we were passing the prisoners at Zavalas the Capt. fired
a cannon over their heads which made them almost fall to the
ground.
When we arrived at Gen. Houstons camp I went on shore and
up into the camp. I went into the small house where Santa Anna
and Gen Almonte were confined and well guarded, both to pre-
vent Santa Anna's escape and to prevent his being assassinated.
Some of the wives of those whom he had murdered in cold blood
would have shot him if they ever could have had the opportunity.
I saw him and Almonte with some servants. he looked very much
cast down, both were rather fine looking men but I thought Al-
monte the finest looking. Santa Anna did not look to me like a
great General or one to dictate to a nation. He was dressed in a
Black frock Coat dark pants and military vest. I could not but
reflect from what a height he had fallen. Now a humbled man
before men, but a few short months before he was at the head of
a nation a second Napoleon as he boasted, and was going to over
run Texas and leave it a barren waste, and now he was cooped
up in a little hut a prisoner afraid of his life for he knew that
after all his massacres of prisoners he rightly deserved death, his
army also prisoners and made so by about one third of his own
force of men poorly armed and no provisions except a little corn
and beef that they gathered as they went.
Gen Houston lay on his couch his wounded leg resting on a
stool reading over letters, orders etc. which were constantly handed
him. He was a great contrast to Santa Anna, a large powerfully
built man with commanding features broad high forehead, gray
hair and looks like a General. His dress was half Indian half
frontiersman, altogether a very striking man. He was evidently
suffering from his wounded leg as he was quite irritable and im-
patient.
One of the soldiers guided me over a portion of the battle
ground which presented a horrible appearance in places where the
fight was thickest-the Mexicans were unburied and lay where they
fell scattered over a large expanse-one place they with a few dead
horses filled a small stream or bayou where their bodies formed a
bridge on which the Texans crossed over. Now they were more
or less decomposed but not as much so as I would have supposed
as the sun appeared to dry them up. Along the edge of the bay138
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 25, July 1921 - April, 1922, periodical, 1922; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101082/m1/144/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.