He dispatched orders to the men scattered up and down the Brazos from Washington to Fort Bend--a distance of eighty miles--to join him on the march to Harrisburg, and he struck his own camp at the time he had specified.
In less than twenty-four hours they reached San Felipe, a distance of twenty-eight miles.

The suffering of the women and children on that march can never be told.

Acts of heroism on the part of the men and of fortitude on the part of the women that are almost incredible, marked every step of the way.

The Senora sat in her wagon, speechless, and lost in a maze of melancholy anguish.

She did not seem to heed want, or cold, or wet, or the utter misery of her surroundings.