not on the monument roll.
In justice to the Texas Centennial Commission and its Advisory Committee of Texas Historians, a word of explanation is due. The monument roll was prepared by the present compiler at the request of, and in consultation with, the Chairman of the Advisory Committee, after much thought and study, and with due pains and care. It was considered questionable as to whether the names of Henry Eadock (or Edick) and John Ward belonged on the monument; otherwise, the list as prepared was believed to be correct. The compiler overlooked, however, the evidence of Joseph W. Andrews of the Georgia Battalion [Lamar Papers No. 2809, Volume IV, Pt. 2, pp. 237-40] which names Anderson Ray and Thomas G. Weeks as two of the wounded men, left by Colonel Ward at the old church, who afterward were killed or died of their wounds. After the dedication of the Refugio monument, and too late to make a change, the compiler discovered Andrews' statement; and, also, a partial list of those killed with Colonel Fannin, in New Orleans Commercial Bulletin for June 30, 1836, which accounts for Lieutenant [Oliver] Smith and [Sergeant William] Wallace, as among those killed at the mission, along with Captain A. B. King.
The present writer was aware, when the monument roll was prepared, that Dr. Joseph E. Field had stated [Three Years in Texas, Charlemont, Mass., Sept. 2, 1836], in describing Captain King's skirmish below Refugio, March 12, 1836,
A part of his men, separated from the rest in the skirmish
by swimming the river, made their escape to Goliad;
and that a roll of the "Red Rovers," as they participated in Colonel Fannin's battle of March 19, accounting for the names and fate of his men, had been published by Dr. Shackelford in The North Alabamian, at Tuscumbia, Alabama, July 16, 1836; but no copy
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