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This was one of the two companies which went forward to San Patricio with Johnson and Grant and never actually came under Fannin's command.

(6) A company of infantry; Captain Thomas Llewellyn, who had commanded a company from Eastern Texas during the fighting at Bexar and acquitted himself well. His company, as reorganized under Johnson and Grant, included San Augustine men as well as volunteers from the United States. This was one of the two companies which went forward to San Patricio with Johnson and Grant and never actually joined Fannin.

General Houston advised the Governor on January 17th that the Bexar volunteers remaining after Bowie's departure for San Antonio with Baker's company numbered "about 209 effective men," and added "Better materials never were in ranks."

4. Two companies originally enlisted by Captain Peyton S. Wyatt, and which arrived at Goliad under his command about January 5, 1836. These were:

(1) The "Huntsville Volunteers"; Captain Peyton S. Wyatt, who started for Texas from Huntsville, Alabama, November, 1835, with about thirty men and "fifty first rate U. S. Muskets" borrowed by Captain Wyatt from the arsenal of the State of Alabama. When he arrived at Washington on the Brazos, late in December,


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© 1936 Harbert Davenport
NOTES FROM AN UNFINISHED STUDY OF FANNIN AND HIS MEN
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