None of the men slept last night.

They stood by the camp-fires talking.
Sometimes I went to the door and looked out.

How awful they were in the blaze and darkness! I think, indeed, they could have conquered Santa Anna very easily." Isabel had not misjudged the spirit of the camp.

The news of the massacre at Goliad was answered by a call for vengeance that nothing but vengeance could satisfy.

On the following day Houston addressed his little army.