Officers and men alike attended it freely.
"Boys," said Fannin, speaking in a firm voice despite his weakness and pain, "we are trapped here in this hole in the prairie, but if you are trapped it does not follow that you have to stay trapped.

I don't seek to conceal anything from you.

Our position could not well be worse.

We have cannon, but we cannot use them any longer because they are choked and clogged from former firing, and we have no water to wash them out.
Shortly we will not have a drop to drink.

But you are brave, and you can still shoot.