The above image is the "Fannin Memorial" erected to honor Col. James Walker Fannin and the men of his command. 

(Photo courtesy of Douglas Anderson)

      The above image is the Historical Marker erected at the "Fannin Memorial" by the Texas Historical Commission,  detailing the plight of Col. J. W. Fannin and his men. 

(Photo courtesy of Douglas Anderson)

Grave  of  Col.  J.  W.   Fannin  and  his  men

       after the battle of coleto (march 19-20, 1836), where a texas army under col. james walker fannin met defeat by mexicans in superior numbers, the texas soldiers were held in the presidio la bahia, supposedly as war prisoners.  however, by order of mexican gen. antonio lopez de santa anna, approximately 400 of fannin's men were marched out and massacred on palm sunday, march 27, 1836.  The wounded were shot one by one in the fort compound.  Col. Fannin was the last to die.

      because of their profession, drs. j. h. barnard, j. e. field and jack shackelford were spared.  about 25 men were saved by a mexican woman, "the angel of goliad."  approximately 30 escaped by feigning death or by swimming the san antonio river.  the texans' corpses were stripped and partly burned, but left unburied.

      this atrocity three weeks after the fall of the alamo gave texans part of the battle cry -- "remember the alamo!  remember la bahia!" -- under which decisive victory was won at san jacinto on april 21, 1836.

      gen. thomas j. rusk and the texan army afterwards marched here and gathered the bones of fannin's men from the terrain.  from presidio la bahia the remains were carried in procession to the grave, and there given a military funeral and burial on june 3, 1836.

(The above narrative is from the inscription on the Texas Historical Commission Marker at the site of the Fannin Memorial, the gravesite of Col. J. W. Fannin and his men.  See image above.)

Lamond,  Adams  G.

Lantz,  Charles

Lee,  Green

Leverett,  Oscar  F.

Linley,  Charles

Logan,  John  C.

Loverly,  Alexander  J.

Loving,  Joseph  S.

Lynch,  A.  M.

Lynde,  A.  H.

Mahoney,  Dennis

Martin,  Henry

Mattern,  Peter

Mays,  Samuel  A.  J.

MCCOY, JAMES

McDonald,  James  A.

McGloin,  John

McGowan,  Dennis

McGowen,  John

McKenzie,  Kenneth

McKinley,  Charles

McLennan,  Alexander

McManomy,   J.  B.

McMurray,  William

McSherry,  James

Merrifield,  William  Jefferson

Miller,  Isaac  H.

Miller,  James  M.

Mills,  Seaborn  A.

Milne,  Charles  C.

Miner,  Drury  Hugh

Mitchell,  Warren  Jordan

Mitchell,  Washington

Mixon,  Claiborne  D.

Moat,  John

Moodv,  Edward

Moore,  David

Moore,  John  H.

Moore,  John  O.

Morgan,  John  F.

Moses,  David

Munson,  Charles  Rufus

Murdock,  David  A.

Neven,  Patrick

Nobles,  Watkins

Noland,  James

Numlin,  John

Oliver,  John  M.

O'Neal,  Zeno  R.

Osborn,  Patrick

Owings,  Robert  Smith

Parker,  William  S.

ParVin,  William

Patton,  Charles

Penny,  George W.

Perkins,  Austin

Perkins,  D.  A.  J.

Petrussewicz,  A.  Adolph

Pettus,  Samuel  Overton

Pace,  Robert  A.

Paine,  George  W.

Parker,  John  K.

Petty,  Rufus  r.

Phillips,  Charles

Pierce,  Stephen

Pittman,  James  F.

Pittman,  Samuel C.

Powell,  Lewis

Powers,  John  M.

Preusch,  William  G.

Quirk,  Thomas

Rainey,  Robert  R.

Reed,  James

Rees,  Thomas  B.

Reese,  Perry

Reeves,  Thomas

Richards,  John

Riddell,  Samuel

Riddle,  Joseph  P.

RipleY,  Henry  D.

The son of American army General Eleazar W. Ripley.

Roberts,  Thomas H.

Rooney,  Cornelius

Rose,  Gideon

Rowe,  Samuel

Rumley,  Thomas

Rvan,  Edward

Sanders,  Samuel  Smith 

Sanders,  Wade  .H.

Sargent,  Charles

Saunders,  James  H. 

Schultz,  Henrv  Lewis

Scott,  R.  J.  y

Sealy,  John

Seaton,  J.  M.

Sevenmen,  Frederick

Seward,  John

Shackelford,  Fortunatus

Shackelford,  William  J.

Short,  Zachariah  H.

Simmons,  S.

Simpson,  Lawson S.

Slatter,  Randolph

Smith,  James

Smith,  Sidney

Smith,  William  A.

Spencer,  Henry

Sprague,  Samuel

Stephens.  William

Stevens,  Abraham

Steward,  Charles  B.

Stovall,  Joseph  A.

Strunk,  Bennett

Taliaferro,  Benjamin  w.

Tatom,  Memory  B.

Tatom,  Joseph  R.

Taylor,  Kneeland

Thayer,  George  J.  W.

Thomas,  Evans  B.

Thorn,  John  Stephen

Ticknor,  Isaac

Tilson.  Lewis

Turbeville,  Wilkins  S.

Tyler,  John

Vaughan,  James

Vaughan,  William  E.

Vigal,  George  Marion

Volckman,  Frederick  J.

Wadsworth,  William  A.  O.

Waggoner,  William

Wallace,  A.  J.

Wallace,  Benjamin  C.

Wallace,  Samuel  f.

Ward,  William

Waters,  Nicholas  B.

Watson,  Joseph  w.

Weaver,  Alman

Webb,  James

West,  James

Weston,  Thomas

Westover,  Ira  J.

Wheeler, Orlando

Wilder,  James  S.

Wilkey,  Henry

Williams,  Abner  B.

Williams,  james 

Williams,  Napoleon B.

Wilson,  Robert  W.

Wilson,  Samuel

Wingate,  Edward

Winn,  James  C.

Winningham,  William  S.

Winship, Stephen

Winter,  Andrew

Witt,  Hughes

Wood,  Henry H.

Wood,  John

Wood,  William  P.

Wren,  Allen

Wright,  Isaac  Newton

Yeamans,  Elias  Robert

Yeamans,  Erastus

Young,  Harrison

Young,  James C.

Youngblood,  Solomon