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Companies & Captains of Fannin's CommandThe companies of Fannin's command were reformed more than once during the first three months of 1836, so that captains and men can be found associated with more than one company during this period. The following is a chronology of the organization of Fannin's command, with links to the related section in the manuscript. | |||
| FANNIN'S MEN | |||
| I. Whence They Came | |||
| List of captains and companies as they arrived at Goliad (about January 1, 1836): | |||
| 1. | Thornton's Mexia regulars + Westover's artillery ... 1 | ||
| 2. | Chenoweth's Bexar Vols. ... 1 | ||
| 3. | Johnson & Grant's Bexar companies for Matamoros expedition: | ||
| (1) | Cooke's "San Antonio Greys" ... 2 | ||
| (2) | Burke's "Mobile Greys" ... 2 | ||
| (3) | Lawrence's "U.S. Independent Cavalry" (Tenn. Vols.) ... 2 | ||
| (4) | Fuller's "Louisville Vols." at Refugio ... 3 | ||
| (5) | Pearson's artillery company ... 3 | ||
| (6) | Llewellyn's infantry (San Augustine & U.S. Vols.) & Benavides' Bexar Mexican detachment ... 4 | ||
| 4. | Wyatt's "Huntsville Vols." (Alabama) & King's "Paducah Vols." ... 4 | ||
| 5. | Fannin's arrival early February with Ward's "Georgia Battalion": | ||
| (1) | Wadsworth's (Columbus GA, AL, MS) ... 6 | ||
| (2) | Bullock's (Macon GA) ... 6 | ||
| (3) | Winn's (Macon & Milledgeville GA, AL, MS) ... 6 | ||
| (4) | Ticknor's "Alabama Greys" (Montgomery AL) ... 7 , and: | ||
| 6. | (1) | Duval's Kentucky riflemen ... 7 | |
| (2) | Guerra's Mexican artillery (joined enemy, except Guerra) ... 7 | ||
| 7. | Joined by: | ||
| (1) | Shackelford's "Red Rovers" (Courtland & Tuscumbia AL) ... 8 | ||
| (2) | Grace's Company (Memphis TN, Clinton MS) ... 8 | ||
| (3) | Sprague's squad (San Felipe) ... 8 | ||
| (4) | Fraser's Refugio Militia ... 8 | ||
| (5) | Horton's Matagorda Volunteers ... 9 | ||
| 8. | Second, "La Fayette" Battalion organized by Fannin in February, 1836: | ||
| (1) | Shackelford's "Red Rovers" ... 9 | ||
| (2) | Duval's "Mustangs" (Duval + Lawrence companies) ... 9 | ||
| (3) | Pettus's "San Antonio Greys" (Cooke + Grace companies) ... 9 | ||
| (4) | Burke's (1 Lt. McManomy) "Mobile Greys" ... 10 | ||
| (5) | Wyatt's (1 Lt. Bradford) "Huntsville Volunteers" ... 10 | ||
| (6) | Hurst's Vol. artillery ... 11 | ||
| II. Fannin's Staff ... 11 | |||
| EXISTING ROLLS OF FANNIN'S MEN | |||
| I. The Telegraph and Texas Register Roll (T&TR, 1836, 1860) ... 21 | |||
| II. Dr. Joseph H. Barnard's Revised Roll of Fannin's Men, circa 1855 ... 23 | |||
| III. The Land Office Muster Rolls (1850, 1856/57) ... 24 | |||
| UNPUBLISHED LISTS OF FANNIN'S MEN | |||
| I. Unpublished lists of Fannin's men used in reconstructing the rolls of Fannin's command: | |||
| 1. | Roll of Captain John M. Allen's Company Regular Infantry,
Dec. 22, 1835 ... 30 | ||
| 2. | Memorial of Volunteers requesting representation in the Convention,
Refugio, Feb. 5, 1836 ... 31 | ||
| 3. | Muster Roll of Captain John Chenoweth's Company, February, 1836 ... 37 | ||
| 4. | Captain Thomas Llewellyn's Company with Grant and Fannin ... 38 | ||
| 5. | Captain Duval's Volunteers, Jan. 8, 1836 ... 40 | ||
| 6. | Sprague's Volunteers from San Felipe, Feb. 9, 1836 ... 41 | ||
| RECONSTRUCTED ROLLS OF FANNIN'S COMMAND | |||
| II. Reconstructed final rolls of the men of Col. J.W. Fannin's Command, destroyed in the spring campaign of 1836: | |||
| 1. | Command and Staff ... 42 | ||
| 2. | First, or Georgia, Battalion: | ||
| (1) | First, or Wadsworth's, Company ... 43 | ||
| (2) | Second, or Bullock's, Company ... 45 | ||
| (3) | Third, or Winn's Company ... 47 | ||
| (4) | Fourth, or Ticknor's Company ... 50 | ||
| 3. | Second, or La Fayette, Battalion: | ||
| (1) | Cooke's (or Pettus') "San Antonio Greys" ... 52 | ||
| (2) | Burke's "Mobile Greys" ... 54 | ||
| (3) | Duval's "Mustangs" ... 55 | ||
| (4) | Shackelford's "Red Rovers" ... 57 | ||
| (5) | Wyatt's "Huntsville Volunteers" ... 60 | ||
| (6) | King's "Paducah Volunteers" ... 62 | ||
| (7) | Fraser's Refugio Volunteers ... 63 | ||
| (8) | Sprague's Squad ... 64 | ||
| (9) | Horton's Matagorda Volunteers ... 64 | ||
| 4. | Westover's Texan Regulars ... 66 | ||
| 5. | Johnson and Grant Detachment & fate ... 68 | ||
From "The Goliad Men", Harbert Davenport's 1939 paper (this Appendix A): Roll of Colonel Fannin's Command
which has some changes in names, name-spelling and fate, along with a roll
of the victims of the Goliad Massacre. Some names from Davenport 1936, of men who were not in the final Fannin Command, are not included.
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Harbert Davenport 1936 NOTES FROM AN UNFINISHED STUDY OF FANNIN AND HIS MEN | |
| H. David Maxey, Editor Webpage of January 1, 2000 | |