Post by: Craig Tx on September 18, 2010, 10:17:45 PM
Sam Houston and other dignitaries dedicate Monument Hill cemetery
On this day in 1848, Sam Houston and other notable Texans gathered a mile south of La Grange at Monument Hill, the chosen site for a military cemetery. Those to be buried there had died in the Dawson Massacre and other conflicts that beset the Republic of Texas as Mexico continued to contest the fact of Texas independence.
Six years earlier, on September 18, 1842, while an army of Texans under Mathew Caldwell defeated the much larger forces of Mexican general Adrián Woll on Salado Creek near San Antonio, Capt. Nicholas Dawson and his fifty-eight volunteers fought a losing battle against 500 irregular Mexican cavalrymen and their two cannons. The Texans were slaughtered.
A few escaped, and fifteen were carted off to Perote Prison, from where only nine survivors were eventually released. The dead were buried in shallow graves and, in 1848, moved to Monument Hill. The day was again solemnly commemorated ninety-one years after the massacre.
On September 18, 1933, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas dedicated a new vault at the site, which had fallen into disrepair and abuse before they moved to rescue it.
Craig
Sorry it's a little late today ya'll...
Post by: Uncle Russ on September 19, 2010, 10:49:25 AM
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Sorry it's a little late today ya'll...
Craig, my friend, I hate to tell ya this, but you're going to have post the next three early, in order to make up for all this tardiness you somehow seem to think you're experiencing.
You hang tight big guy, many of us throughly enjoy your postings, and none of us hold you to a time-schedule.
You definitely be the man from Tejas......
Uncle Russ...
Post by: Caddo on September 19, 2010, 06:12:01 PM
Post by: Craig Tx on September 19, 2010, 07:52:45 PM
Uncle Russ, I try to at least get them posted on the same day as they occur. It was probably a little late for our fellows on the opposite coast.
Just tryin' to be polite...
Craig