The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft . the eastern wall, they wereblindfolded, and fired upon till they ceased to 37 According to Green, 165-8. The same author states that 5 men died inthe mountains; 5 were left there, and were supposed to have perished; and4 effected their escape to Texas. Id., 444, 446. There is therefore a discrep-ancy of three between the original number 193 and the latter figures given bythis writer. 38 Representing 176 prisoners, the sick having been left on the road. the number was 174. 39 Their names were: John S. Cash, James D. Cocke, Major Robert D
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft . the eastern wall, they wereblindfolded, and fired upon till they ceased to 37 According to Green, 165-8. The same author states that 5 men died inthe mountains; 5 were left there, and were supposed to have perished; and4 effected their escape to Texas. Id., 444, 446. There is therefore a discrep-ancy of three between the original number 193 and the latter figures given bythis writer. 38 Representing 176 prisoners, the sick having been left on the road. the number was 174. 39 Their names were: John S. Cash, James D. Cocke, Major Robert Dun- 368 END OF THE TEXAN REPUBLIC. The survivors were marched to the city of Mexico,several dying on the way. At Huehuetoca, about sixleagues from the capital, Captain Cameron, who hadescaped the death-lottery of March 25th, was exe-cuted, April 25th, by order of Santa Anna. The re-mainder of the prisoners were put to work at road-making. In September, the greater portion of themwere sent to the fortress of Perote, where they found. Fortress of Perote. most of the Bejar prisoners. General Green, ColonelFisher, and some others had been sent direct to thisstronghold, and on July 2d, Green and seven othercaptives effected their escape, having tunnelled throughthe foundations of the fortress. Through the inter-ham, Captain William M. Estland, Edward E. Este, Robert Harris, ThomasL. Jones, Patrick Mahan, James Ogden, Charles M. Roberts, William Rowan,James L. Shepherd, J. M. N. Thompson, James N. Torrey, James Turnbull,Henry Whaling, M. C. Wing. Shepherd being struck in the face at the firstfire, the ball inflicting only a bad flesh-wound, fell forward and feigneddeath. When night came on, he crawled away to the mountains, but com-pelled by hunger, after wandering for several weeks, surrendered himself,was taken to Saltillo, recognized, and shot in the public square. Id., 74;Thrall, 331. PELEASE OF PRISONERS. 369 cession of General Waddy Thompson, the last of theBejar prisoners, to
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