Goliad survivor Isaac D. Hamilton

By Lester Hamilton

The story of a Goliad Massacre survivor. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811104176
• ISBN13: 9780811104173
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Naylor Co
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

'DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS'

"REMEMBER THE ALAMO, REMEMBER GOLIAD"-Sam Houston The war rallying cry for the Texas settlers at San Jacinto were those very words from Sam Houston who later served as President of the fledgling Texas State, then later as Governor of Texas. Everyone knows about the Alamo, precious few about Goliad. Goliad, Texas is a small Texan town about 80 miles or so southeast of San Antonio, the city where the fated battle for the Alamo on March 6, 1836 occurred. Weeks before that day, commanding officer, William Barret Travis had been sending letters to Col. James Walker Fannin stationed at Goliad pleading for reinforcements. The reinforcements were never sent. The massacre at Goliad happened on March 27, 1836, on Palm Sunday of that year. The week before, starting on March 19 at Coleto Creek a stone's throw away from Goliad, the Texas volunteers had surrendered to General Urrea and were held captive in the mission church at Goliad. On March 27, the volunteers thought they were being set free to return to their homes, and then the shots began to be fired as they began to march out of the mission church...Mexico was then ruled by the Dictator Santa Anna who had disposed of the Mexican Constitutional government in 1834 when he came to power. (Disunion actually characterized both sides; prior to the Alamo, the Provisional Governor for the "Texians" was replaced with James Robinson with Col. Fannin as the commander of their forces, and the Mexicans had their share of unsung heroes who risked their lives, acting against their dictator's decrees by aiding the Texians, the most famous in the Goliad story being that of the "Angel of Goliad", a young woman named Panchita Alavez who, in fact, saved Isaac's life as you will understand if you read this book). In 1836, obviously, he was on the prowl trying to rid the territory of Texas of all Anglos, seemingly succeeding at the Alamo, failing miserably at San Jacinto(!). Only four soldiers survived the Goliad massacre, one of whom was my great (x5) uncle Isaac D. Hamilton; Lester Hamilton is a distant cousin, our common ancestor was Isaac D. Hamilton's father Francis Hamilton of Courtland, Alabama. Lester Hamilton was inspired to write about Isaac Hamilton's story from the stories handed to him from his father and from the muzzle loading, Kentucky rifle his father gave him that Isaac Hamilton had owned. Of the four survivors, Isaac was in the worst shape, severely wounded, having been shot in his left thigh, bayoneted in his right thigh. All four decided to leave Isaac to fend for himself since Mexicans were heavily patrolling that area of Texas, and the other three had to carry him wherever they went. He survived, made it back to Alabama, died sometime in 1859 in Moulton, Texas, a small town half way between San Antonio and Houston, never really fully recovering from the wounds he received. Lester Hamilton's story of Isaac is told within the context of the key events of the Texas Revolution leading u