William S. Taylor's Account of the Battle and Santa Anna's Attempt to Escape
Page 7 of 8
No 7
If I was to say that the folowing men
kild not less then twenty Mexicans in the chase to
the Bridge and up and down the bayou near the
neck of the Bridge, I am satisfied that it would
be no exaguration on my part Washington Secres [Secrest]
Thomas ___ [?] Elishe Clapp those having the
fleetest horseis in the chase.
The evening of April 22 the next day after the Battle,
on leaving the neck of vince Bridge to return to the
Battle ground, the road runs parlel [parallel] with Buffelow
Bayou. There being houses a long down the bayou,
I com to the conclusion that I would go by som of them [and]
perhaps I might find som thing to eat, as we had ben
living on pore beef without bread or salt for som weeks,
most [of] the inhabitance having left in what was turmd [termed] the
runeway [runaway] scrape. After passing several without success, I
made my way back to the mane rorde. Som half mile
from the wode I saw a Mexican laying spread out on his
blanket. The thought struck me that we had lade no one out
the day before in there blankets. Curiosity led me to examine him.
I rode up to him. While seting in my horse looking at him, I
discovered that he was breathing. I spoke to him. He rose up asking me
for water. Although the trern [terrain] was coverd in places with mud
and water, he happened to be on a hight place not near water.
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