II. Dr. Joseph H. Barnard's Revised Roll of Fannin's Men

[Editor's transcription and name list online, this site]

Dr. Joseph H. Barnard, who assisted in preparing the original Telegraph and Texas Register Roll, interested himself in later years in an attempt to revise and perfect it. As early as 1855 his revised roll was considered the most reliable known list of Fannin's men; but it was not published while Dr. Barnard lived, probably because the careful and painstaking doctor was never satisfied with what he had been able to do. After his death [Ed: in 1861], it was given by his daughter, Mrs. Fannie Hardeman, to John Crittenden Duval, another Fannin survivor, who published it, in 1892, as an appendix (pp. 243-253) to his book, Early Times in Texas, which included a narrative of his own experiences in the Goliad campaign. The Duval publication is marred by many typographical blunders; but the original Barnard roll, which Duval used, is accessible, being preserved as an archive in the State Library of Texas.