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Men of Goliad-Index | Goliad Massacre-Index
Goliad Region January-27 March 1836
Johnson & Grant &
Colonel James Fannin's Command
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Johnson and Grant at San
Patricio and Vicinity
Colonel
Francis Johnson's Command
Surprised by Centralista Forces at San Patricio, 27 February 1836
Killed
Dr. Gustav Bunsen, Henry Coney/Cooney, Benjamin Dale, Dr. William M. W.
Hort/Hart; Captain Thomas K. Pearson; William Williams; 2 native Tejanos from
Bexar; 2 Americans from Grant's command
Captured and sent to Matamoros
Arreola; William B. Benson; John Bryan; George Copeland; Sebastian Francois;
William L. Hall; Lucius H. Kerr; William Langenheim; Phineas Jenks Mahan; Samuel W.
McKneely; Thomas S. Mitchell; Hutchins M. Pittman; Thomas Robison; John Spiess; Zambrano;
3 native Tejanos from Bexar
Escaped
John F.Beck*; Edward H. Hufty*; Col. Francis W. Johnson; John H.
Love; James M. Miller*, Daniel J. Toler
*Executed later at Goliad with Fannin's men. Centralista commander Urrea
reported that he killed 20 and took 32 prisoners. |
Dr. James Grant's Command
Agua Dulce, 2 March 1836
Killed
James A. Cass; Joseph Carpenter; Stephen Denison; Dr. James Grant; Dr. Charles P. Heartt;
J.T. Howard; J.W. Wentworth; Joseph Smith Johnston; Thomas Lewellen; Horace Ovid Marshall;
John C. McLanglin; Robert C. Morris (2nd in Command)
Captured and imprisoned at
Matamoros
Reuben R. Brown; John Collett;
Stillman S. Curtis; Nelson Jones; 2 native Tejanos, (one named Cayetano)
Escaped
Plac�do Benavides; Randolph DeSpain; William James Gatlin; David Moses; Plaude; James
Reed; Captain William Scurlock (Innlock)
Except Benavides and Scurlock, escapees joined Fannin's men and were
executed on 27 March. Scurlock was spared as a nurse. Two unidentified Americans attached
to Grant were killed at San Patricio. Centralista commander Urrea reported that he
killed 40 and took 6 prisoners. According to Reuben Brown, there were about 64 who
remained after Houston's speech against the expedition. |
--Captured 20 March and Executed 27 March 1836--
James W. Fannin
Colonel Commander
Lt. Colonel William Ward
Major Warren J. Mitchell (Georgia Battalion)
Major Benjamin C. Wallace (Lafayette Battalion)
Adjutants Joseph M. Chadwick; John Sowers Brooks
Sergeant Major Gideon S. Rose (Winn'sCo)
--Spared from execution 27 March 1836--
Quartermaster David I. Holt
Asst. Quartermaster & Regimental Clerk Lewis M.H. Washington
Commissary James Hughes (spared
under name Bills)
Surgeons James Field, James H. Barnard |
The Georgia Battalion
Major Warren Jordan Mitchell, Commanding
Col. Ward and Capt. King at
Refugio
Captain Amon B. King's Command
(Auxiliary Volunteers)
Mission Refugio 14-16 March 1836
Killed in Action or Executed
Sergeant Samuel Anderson; William S. Armstrong; Sergeant James Henry
Callison; John H. Colgrove; Thomas Cook; Fields David/Davis; Jackson David/Davis; Hall;
James Henley; Joel F. Heth; Sergeant William R. Johnson; Captain Amon
Butler King; Harvey H. Kirk; Sneed Ledbetter; James B. Murphy (Wadsworth'sCo);
James Murphy; Anderson Ray (Winn'sCo)*; John B. Rodgers (Wadsworth'sCo);
Antonio Sayle/Siler (Fraser's Militia)*; William Shelton (Winn'sCo);
William K. Simpson (Wyatt'sCo); Gavin Smith; 2nd. Lt. Oliver Smith (Wyatt'sCo)*;
John C. Stewart; Robert A. Toler; 1st Sergeant William Wallace (Wyatt'sCo)*;
Thomas G. Weeks (Bullock'sCo)*; Christopher Winters (Winn'sCo); Samuel
Wood (Ticknor'sCo)
*Not on the Centennial Monument at Refugio
Additional names on the Centennial Monument at Refugio
Leslie G.H. Bracy; Henry H. Eadock; Lewis C. Gibbs; Jesse C. Humphries; Sargeant
George W. Penny; John Ward
Captured with King and Spared Execution
Lewis Ayers; Francis Dietrich (Fraser's
Militia); Nicholas Fagan (Fraser's Militia); John James (Fraser's
Militia); Charles Jenson (Westover'sCo); Benjamin D. Odlum; Abraham H.
Osborn (Bullock'sCo)
Some of these men were spared by General Urrea as colonists or intervention by
others. Jenson/Johnson, according to Ehrenberg's account, was a
"Hamburger named Gensen" and was spared due to intervention by Colonel J. J.
Holzinger, a fellow German. Holzinger unsuccessfully attempted to spare another German
blacksmith and colonist, Antonio Sayle/Siler. Colonists Nicholas Fagan and
Francis Dieterich were taken to Goliad as prisoners and on 27 March again spared.
John James, sindico of the Refugio ayuntamiento was spared upon capture, but was killed at
Goliad with Fannin's men. Osborn was wounded and spared with help of a native
Tejano "Cobian" and appeal of his wife to Gen. Urrea. |
Colonel William Ward's
Retreat
Lost or Escaped at and Near Victoria
Water party 16 March 1836
William H. Butler (Bullock'sCo); John Bright (Winn'sCo);
O.H. Perry Davis (Wyatt'sCo); David I. Holt (Staff); Henry G. Hudson (Wyatt'sCo);
Hugh Rogers (Wadsworth'sCo); 3rd Sergeant Richard Rutledge (Ticknor'sCo)
Killed in action at Victoria 21 Mar: 2nd
Lt. Joseph L. Wilson (Wadsworth'sCo)
Executed while prisoners near Victoria, 21 March
2nd Lt. Daniel B. Brooks (Winn'sCo); Stith Conner; Thomas Quirk (Fraser's
Militia)
From records, seven are unaccounted for.
Left at the Guadalupe night of
21 March, escaped
Joseph Andrews (Bullock's Co);
1st Lt. Benjamin F. Bradford (Wyatt'sCo); Samuel G. Hardaway (Bullock'sCo);
Charles Frederick Heck (Ticknor'sCo); Allen Ingram (Wadsworth'sCo); M.
K. Moses (Wadsworth'sCo); L.T. Pease
(Bullock'sCo); 4th Sergeant Joel D. Rains (Wyatt'sCo); George
Rounds (Wadsworth'sCo); James P. Trezevant (Bullock'sCo)
Detailed to build boats at Victoria, 23 March, escaped
James H. Barnwell (Bullock'sCo); 3rd Sergeant James H. Callaghan (Winn'sCo);
Joseph Gamble; Roderick Pierce Hammock (Bullock'sCo); Andrew Jackson Hitchcock (Wadsworth'sCo)*;
Thomas Horry (Wadsworth'sCo); John C.P.
Kennymore (Wadsworth'sCo); John James Lamkin (Wyatt'sCo);
James H. Neely (Wadsworth'sCo); John O'Daniel Jr. (Ticknor'sCo); 1st
Sergeant Edward Patterson (Ticknor'sCo); Thomas J. Smith (Westover'sCo);
John T. Spiller; Thomas G. Stewart (Bullock'sCo); Capt. William A.O.
Wadsworth (Wadsworth'sCo); William L. (Cubelo) Wilkinson (Bullock'sCo)
*Acquaintances of A. J. Hitchcock contend that he escaped from the massacre on
27 March, but official records and contemporaries place him in Victoria.
Detained at Victoria by General Urrea, escaped
Emanuel Durain (Wadsworth'sCo); Sion Duff Greene (Ticknor'sCo);
Martin Moran (Winn'sCo); James Benjamin F. Mordecai (Bullock'sCo);
William Welsh (Ticknor'sCo) |
Captain Horton's Mounted Rangers
Escaped capture on 19-20 March
Captain Albert C. Horton
Lt. James W. Moore
Thomas Jefferson Adams; Norman Austin; Dr. John Walker Baylor
(Shackelford'sCo); Jacob Betts; Garrett E. Boom; George J. Bridgeman (Bullock'sCo);
George Whitfield Brooks; J.W. Buckner; Thomas Cantwell; Joseph Clements; Lewis DeMoss;
William DeMoss; Nicholas M. Eastland;
Joseph Fenner; William C. Francis; Jefferson George; Francis Jones; John Jones; Augustus
S. Kincheloe; Charles Morgan; John L. Osborn; Thomas Osborn; Michael Riley; George N.
Robinson; Levi Pendleton Scott; Christopher Terrell; Thomas S. Thompson; George W.
Wheelwright; Ralph Wright
Captured and then executed at Goliad
1st Sergeant Thomas M. Blake, George W. Cash; Thomas Jefferson Dasher; J.E.
Duffield; Ransome O. Graves; John J. Hand; George W. Paine; Lewis Powell; Henry Spencer;
Napoleon B. Williams; Hughes Witt; Elias Robert Yeamans; Erastus Yeamans
Escaped during Goliad massacre 27 March
William Haddin; Daniel Martindale
Spared execution by intercession 27 March
Francisco Garc�a; Benjamin F.
Hughes; Charles Smith
Escaped to Victoria night of 18 March
Silas M. Durret; Elam Ludington |
Captain Bullock's Company (First
Regiment Texas Volunteers)
Captain Uriah Irwin Bullock (sick at Velasco)
Captured and Executed 27 March
Second Sergeant Bradford Fowler, Third Sergeant Allison Ames
First corporal Charles R. Munson, Second corporal Thomas S. Freeman,
Fourth corporal George Marion Vigal
Isaac Aldridge, William A. J. Brown, Moses Butler, George Washington
Cumming, Joseph Dennis, Michael Devereaux, Michael Ellis, Charles Fine, John Gibbs, James
McCoy, Kenneth McKenzie, Drury Hugh Minor, John Moat, John O. Moore, Robert A. Pace,
Austin Perkins, Samuel Rowe, John S. Scully, John Sealy, Joseph A. Stovall, William L.
Wilkerson, Henry H. Wood
Escaped during massacre 27 March
Third corporal Samuel T. Brown,
First sergeant Francis M. Hunt (possibly executed at Goliad)
Spared execution by intercession 27 March
Thomas Smith (Abel Morgan), John T.
Spillers
Spared execution for absence or illness 14-27 March
Munroe Bullock, 4th Sergeant Robert Dickinson, 1st. Lt.
Basil Lamar, 2nd Lt. Alexander E. Patton, Joseph T. Williams |
Captain Ticknor's Company (First
Regiment Texas Volunteers)
Captured and Executed 27 March
Captain Isaac Ticknor*
1st. Lt. Memory B. Tatom; 2nd Lt. William A. Smith
2nd Sergeant Nicholas B. Waters; 4th Sergeant Samuel C. Pittman
1st Corporal Joseph B. Tatom*; 2nd Corporal James C. Jack; 3rd
Corporal Perry Reese; 4th Corporal Thomas Reeves; Musician Thomas
Weston, musician
*with Col. Ward at Mission Refugio
Layton Allen, William L. Alston, Stephen Baker, James A. Bradford,
George Washington Carlisle, William Comstock, Cullen Conrad, William P. B. Dubose, Edward
Fitzsimmons, Hezekiah Frost, Jesse Harris, Henry Hastie, David Johnson, Charles
Lantz, Oscar F. Leverett, A. M. Lynch, John McGowen, Seaborne A. Mills, Washington
Mitchell, Cornelius Rooney, Swords, Evans M. Thomas, James Williams, Isaac Newton Wright,
James O. Young |
Captain Wadsworth's Company
(First Regiment Texas Volunteers)
Captain William A. O. Wadsworth*
Captured and Executed 27 March
1st Lt. Thomas B. Rees
2nd Sargeant Samuel A. J. Mays*
1st Corporal Josiah (James) McSherry, 2nd Corporal J. S. Brown
*With Col. Ward at Mission Refugio, captured in Victoria, Capt. Wadsworth was
spared as a carpenter for building boats in Victoria.
Wiley A. Abercrombie, Thomas B. Barton, Joseph H. Clark, William J.
Colston, J. A. Foster, Charles Frazier, William Warren Frazier, William Gilbert, Francis
Gilkison, Charles C. Milne, John H. Moore, J. H. Saunders, S. Simmons, R. Slatter,
Benjamin A. Taliaferro, Wilkins S. Turbeville, Edward Wingate, Solomon Youngblood
Escaped during massacre 27 March
Joseph Gramble, 3rd Sargeant Samuel P. Wallace
Spared execution for absence or illness 14-27 March
4th Corporal Amos D. Kenyon, 1st Sergeant John Smith |
Captain Winn's Company (First
Regiment Texas Volunteers)
Captured and Executed 27 March
Captain James C. Winn
1st Lt. Wiley Hughes
1st Sergeant Anthony Bates; 2nd Sergeant John Steven Thom; 4th
Sergeant Wesley Hughes
1st Corporal John M. Gimble; 2nd Corporal Walter W. Daws; 3rd
Corporal Abraham Stevens; 4th Corporal John M. Powers; Corporal Ray
John Aldridge, Reason Banks, Josias B. Beall, John M. Bryson, Michael
Carrol, Thomas H. Cosby, John Ely, George Eubanks, Dominic Gallagher, Wilson Helms, Green
Lee, Alexander J. Loverly, Joseph S. Loving, S. Mangum, Watkins Nobles, John M. Oliver,
Patrick Osburn, William Parvin, Thomas Rumley, Henry Lewis Shultz, James Smith, John
Williams, Harrison Young
Spared execution for absence or illness 14-27 March
John Barton |
Lafayette Battalion
Major Benjamin C. Wallace, Commanding
Captain Burke's Company (Mobile
Greys)
Captain David N. Burke (on furlough)
Captured and Executed 27 March
2nd Lt. J. B. McManomy, Commanding
Orderly Sergeant James Kelly; Sergeant H. D. Ripley, sergeant
John Chew, Jacob Coleman, John D. Cunningham, G. F. Curtman,
Randolph DeSpain, Samuel M. Edwards, Micajah G. Frazier, William James Gatlin, William T.
Green,William Hunter, Charles B. Jennings, Montgomery P. King, P. T. Kissam, Charles
Linley, Peter Mattem, William McMurray, Zeno R. O'Neal, James Reid, John Richards, John
Seward, William Stephens, Kneeland Taylor, Orlando Wheeler, William P. Wood
Escaped during massacre 27 March
Neill John Devenny, Herman Ehrenberg,
Thomas Kemp
Spared execution by intercession 27 March
William Rosenbury, Joseph H. Spohn,
Alvin E. White
Spared execution for absence or illness 14-27 March
Joseph Hopkins |
Captain Duval's Company
(Kentucky Mustangs--First Regiment Volunteers from Bardstown)
Captured and Executed 27 March
Captain Burr H. Duval
Lieutenants Samuel Wilson, William Jefferson Merrifield
Sergeants George Washington Daniel, James S. Bagby, Enoch P. Gaines Chisum,
William P. Dickerman
Corporals Norborne B. Hawkins, Abner B. Williams, A. H. Lynd, Richard G. Brashear
James Moss Adams, James S. Batts, Fred J. Bellows, William S. Carlson,
Thomas T. Churchill, William H. Cole, John Donohoo, H. M. Downman, George Dyer, Charles
Ready Haskell, Edward J. Johnson, James P. Kemp, Adams G. Lamond, James A. McDonald,
William Mayer, Harvey Martin, Robert Smith Owings, Robert R. Rainey, Samuel Smith Sanders,
Lawson S. Simpson, Lewis Tilson, B. W. Tolover, J. Q. Volckner, William Waggoner
Escaped during massacre 27 March
Thomas G. Allen, John Crittenden Duval,
John C. Holliday, William Mason, Charles B. Shain, Augustus V. Sharpe
Spared execution by intercession 27 March
John Van Bibber (ill); Sidney Van Bibber, Ulrich Wuthrich
Spared execution for absence or illness 14-27 March
Dr. William H. Magee |
Captain Pettus' Company (San
Antonio Greys)
Captured and Executed 27 March
Captain Samuel Overton Pettus (wounded Coleto)
Lieutenant John C. Grace
Sergeants Ebenezer Smith Heath, James, Samuel Riddell
Nathaniel R. Brister, A. Bynum, Mariano Carbajal,
Charles J. Carriere, J. M. Cass, Henderson Cozart, Noah Dickinson Jr., Escott, George M.
Gilland, Gould, Francis H. Gray, George Green, William Harper, Stuart Hill, Nathan
Hodge, James Noland, W. P. Johnston, Allen O. Kinney, John C. Logan, Dennis Mahoney,
Edward Moody, D.A.J. Perkins, Charles Phillips, William G. Preusch, Joseph P. Riddle,
Charles Sargent, R. J. Scott, Wallace, James West, John Wood
Escaped during massacre 27 March
William Brenan, Captain Benjamin H. Holland (Artillery), Sergeant
William L. Hunter,
Milton
Irish, David J. Jones, John Rees
Spared execution by intercession 27 March
Peter Griffin, George Andrew Vose |
Captain Shackelford's
Company
(Alabama Red Rovers)
Captain Jack Shackelford
(spared execution by intercesson)
Captured and Executed 27 March
Orderly Sergeant Fortunatus S. Shackelford; 3rd Sergeant A. G.
Foley; 4th Sergeant Zachariah H. Short
1st Corporal Henry Hogue Bentley; 2nd Corporal David Moore; 3rd
Corporal John H. Barkley; 4th Corporal Andrew Winter
Patrick H. Anderson, John N. Barnhill, Joseph H. Blackwell, Thomas
Burbidge, Benjamin F. Burt, J. W. Cain, Seth Clark, John G. Coe, Harvey Cox, Robert T.
Davidson, George A. Davis, H. B. Day, Abijah Hogan Dickson, Henry L. Douglas, William G.
Douglas, James W. Duncan, James E. Ellis, Samuel Farney, Robert Fenner, Joseph G.
Ferguson, Elijah B. Franklin, David Gamble, M. C. Garner, James H. Grimes, William Gunter,
William Hemphill, John Heyser, Henry W. Jones, John N. Jackson, Charles W. Kinley, Isaac
H. Miller, David A. Murdock, J. M. Seaton, William J. Shackelford, Bennett Strunk, W. E.
Vaughan, James Vaughan, James S. Wilder, Robert W. Wilson
Escaped during massacre 27 March
Zachariah S. Brooks, Dillard
Cooper, 2nd Sergeant Isaac D.
Hamilton (quartermaster), Wilson Simpson
Spared execution for absence or illness 14-27 March
1st Lt. Francis S. Early, Simpson Tennant |
Captain Westover's Company
(Regular Army)
Captured and Executed 27 March
Captain Ira J. Westover
2nd Lt. Lucias W. Gates
1st Sergeant William S. Brown; 3rd Sergeant John McGloin
Augustus Baker, Marvin Bell, Marion Betts, Daniel Buckley, Matthew Byme,
G. W. Coglan, Matthew Conway, John Cross, George Dedrich, Richard Desney/Disney, Andrew H.
Eddy, Matthew Eddy, Otis G. Eels/Eiles, Robert English, John Fadden/Fadder, Edward Garner,
John Gleeson, E. J. D. Grinolds, William Harris, William R. Hatfield, John Hitchard, John
Kelly, Dennis McGowan, Patrick Neven, John Numlin, Stephen Pierce, Edward Ryan, Lewis
Shotts, Sidney Smith, Charles B. Stewart, Daniel Syers, Joseph W. Watson, James Webb,
William S. Winningham
Spared execution by intercession 27 March
Andrew Michael Boyle, George Pittuck
Spared execution for absence or illness 14-27 March
3rd Lt. Bennett McNelly, 1st. Lt. Francis W. Thornton |
Captain Wyatt's Company (Louisville
Volunteers)
Captain Peyton Sterling Wyatt (on
furlough)
Recuits from Huntsville, Alabama under Lt. Benjamin F.
Bradford
Recruits from Paducah, Kentucky under Captain Amon B. King
Captured and Executed 27 March
2nd Sergeant George W. Thayer; 3rd Sergeant Henry Wilkey
Quartermaster Oliver Brown; Musician Peter Allen
Alfred Allison, Gabriel Bouch, Ewing Caruthers, Napoleon Debicki, Henry
H. Dickson,. Terrell R. Frizzel, John H. Fisher, Edward Fuller, Imanuel Frederic
Giebenrath, James A. Hamilton, Erasmus D. Harrison, John Kornickey, Alexander
McLennan, Claiborne D. Mixon, John F. Morgan, John K. Parker, William S. Parker, Charles
Patton, Capt. A. Adolph Petrussewicz (Artillery), Frederick Severunan,
John Tyler, Allen Bates Wren
Escaped during massacre 27 March
Bennett Butler |
Currently
Unassigned
Captured and then executed 27 March
Dusanque, Francis J. (courier for Gen. Houston); Hardwick,
Charles S.; Capt. Hurst (Artillery), Stephen Decatur; Petty, Rufus R.;
Pittman, James F.; Roberts, Thomas H.; Sanders, Wade H.; Sprague, Samuel; Volckman,
Frederick J.; Wallace, A. J.; Weaver, Alman; Winship, Stephen
Escaped during massacre 27 March
Hazen, Nathaniel; Hicks, Joseph W.; Murphy, Daniel (William)
Spared execution for absence or illness 14-27 March
Good, Isham. J.; Howe, Joseph; Lourey/Lowary, John
Fate Unaccounted for: Chambers, John L.; Eadock, Henry
H.; Hamlet, Richard Green; Jones, David J. (served San Jacinto, hanged later for
murder);Ward, Henry L.; Ward, John |
Fraser's Militia
Company
Capt. Hugh McDonald Fraser*
1st Lt. John Keating, 2nd Lt. Walter Lambert
John White Bower, Elkanah Brush, James W. Byrnes, Robert M. Carlisle,
John Coughlin, Andrew Devereaux, Francis Dietrich, John Fagan, Nicholas Fagan, Edward
Fitzgerald, John James*, Peter Hynes, John Keating, Walter Lambert, Victor Loup�, Charles
Malone, Edward McDonough, George McKnight (killed in action Coleto), Morgon
O'Brien, Thomas O'Connor, Michael O'Donnell, Edward Perry, John Pollen, James Power,
Thomas Quirk, Isaac Robertson/Robinson, Antonio Sayle/Siler, Charles Shingle, Edmond St.
John, James St. John, William St. John, Anthony Sideck/Sydick, John B. Sideck/Sydick,
Martin Toole, [probably also Paulino de la Garza and Jos� Mar�a de la Garza]
* Executed at Goliad. James W. Bynes, John Fagan, Edward Perry, Anthony
Sidick, John B. Sidick were captured at Coleto and spared on recommendation of Captain Don
Carlos de la Garza, with whom they were neighbors on the San Antonio River. Nicholas Fagan
who was with King at Refugio was also spared by de la Garza's intervention. |
Killed in action or
mortally wounded Battle of Coleto Creek 19 March 1836
Alfred Dorsey (Shackelford'sCo); Conrad Eigenauer (Burke'sCo);
John Jackson (Shackelford'sCo); John Kelly (Shackelford'sCo); William H.
Mann (Westover'sCo); 2nd Sergeant George McKnight (Fraser's Militia);
Capt. H. Francis Petrussewicz/Petrewich (Wyatt'sCo, Artillery); William
Quinn (Shackelford'sCo); William F. Savage (Shackelford'sCo); Archibald
Swords (Burke'sCo) |
(Sources: List from the Telegraph and Texas
Register; Kathyrn O'Connor's The Presidio La Bahia; Index to Military Rolls Republic of
Texas 1835-1845, Harbert Davenport's Notes from an Unfinished
Study of Fannin and his Men & Appendix: The Goliad Men; Thomas L. Miller's
Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas. 1835-1888 and diverse other sources)
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