all killed or captured but six, including Johnson, who escaped. On March 2, Grant's men were surprised, while on the march, at the crossing of the Agua Dulce, and, in their turn, were all killed or captured, except six.

At this time, Colonel Fannin, at Goliad, was also becoming seriously embarrassed by problems of supply. Though the cargo of the Caroline was landed at Cox's Point (now Port Lavaca) on February 14, and another cargo, which followed, was soon discharged at Cox's Point and Dimitt's Landing, none of this abundance of provisions had as yet reached Colonel Fannin in larger quantities than an overnight supply. He did not receive them in quantities until the afternoon of March 10. Of this he complained, bitterly, as a reproach to the people of Texas, in a private letter written on February 28.

That indictment requires explanation, even now. The explanation is that the people of Texas -- that is, Austin's "old settlers"; those whose families were in Texas, and who owned and tilled the soil had been told, and had believed, since the previous autumn, that Cos' defeat meant the end of the war. They had exerted themselves to the utmost to supply the Texan army before Béxar. Cos was beaten; and insofar as the "old Texans" were concerned, that was the end of the war. Their present job was planting corn. To do it, they had urgent need of their wagons, teams and tools. They had no interest in Mexican politics, and felt sure that after they had expelled the obnoxious Mexican garrisons, the government of Mexico would not dare trouble them again; and they were, for their part, more than willing, to let Mexico alone. The Matamoros expedition was no affair of theirs. Feeding the army, if an army was needed, (and that one was needed, they did not really believe) was the business of the government; and if the provisional government failed to do so, or ceased to function, the new Convention would assemble March 1. January had been punctuated with rumors of a new invasion. These rumors had had no basis, and Colonel Fannin's alarming messages were likely others of the same sort. Texas' job for the present was growing corn; and if Texas did not grow corn, Texan families, as well as the Texan soldiers, would surely go hungry before the end of the year. War was a pleasurable excitement, but one to be enjoyed after the crops had been gathered in the fall. Meantime, the Texans and their families had to eat. Most of this was wrong, of course, but