Certified Copies of Letters on the Sherman Flag by Edward Miles and Carrie Sherman Menard
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In this boggy marsh in his rear the slaughter was great- [sic]
Their cannon, a fine old Spanish Brass 9lb and their
small arms in great abundance as also all their Camp &
Garrison Equipage abandoned and "Before the setting sun"
in the language of the Roman Veni, Vici, Vidi [veni, vidi, vici]
Gen1 Coss(1) & a large part of his Command with
their arms surrendered in a body-the firing then had
ceased
[(1) Coss was not captured until the 24th McA]
Note An Artist here, Mr. T. Gentily has made
a painting of the attack on the Alamo-this he had copy
righted and photographed-he has only shown me these,
as he has not yet placed them in market-
You must take this for just what it is worth
Yours Truly
Edward Miles.
Signed
San Antonio
Oct-'85
McA
The State of Texas,
County of Travis.
I, the undersigned authority, having
carefully compared the three foregoing pages of writing
with a communication among the archives of the Texas State
Library, signed Edwarrd Miles and addressed to H.A. McAr-
dle, do hereby certify that the above three pages of writ-
ing is a true and correct copy of the communication re-
ferenced to.
Austin, June 8, 1905
C. W. Raines
State Librarian
Sworn to and subscribed before me, at Austin
Texas, this the 8th day of June 1905
F. Thrreall [?]
Notary Public, Travis, County, Texas.
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