just at this time: Joseph M. Chadwick, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, but who came to Texas from Illinois; and John S. Brooks, of Staunton, Virginia, both of whom had had some practical military experience -- Chadwick having been for nearly two years a cadet at West Point; while Brooks had had a year's actual service as private and corporal in the U. S. Marine Corps. Brooks was appointed Adjutant, and Chadwick, Sergeant Major, of the newly created battalion.

After landing at Copano, in February, 1836, Fannin organized all the volunteers there into a provisional regiment of volunteer infantry, of which he was elected Colonel and Major Ward, Lieutenant Colonel. The Georgia Battalion then chose Dr. Mitchell Major of that battalion to succeed Lieutenant Colonel Ward. Fannin completed the regimental organization, except for the election of a Major for its second Battalion, by assigning the staff officers of the Georgia Battalion to corresponding duties in the regimental organization. After removing his headquarters to Goliad, he organized his second Battalion with Benjamin C. Wallace, a Virginian, as Major; and filled the vacancy in his medical staff created by Doctor Mitchell's assignment to a military command, by appointing Dr. William H. Magee, a young doctor who had enlisted as a private in Duval's company, Post Surgeon at Goliad. Having been joined, a few days later, by Nathaniel R. Brister of the New Orleans Greys, who had