CAsrL. eg PE.ors, Mexico, April I5th, Isl3.
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My Dear Friends:-You will learn by this let.
tor, that am one Of the sixty-two prisoners of
war. conlined in this filthy prison, and we'll load
ed with criminals chains. Gen. Fisher, myself.
and four others, were in advance Of the other Mer
prisoners, when they broke from their guards at
Salado, on tho llth February. We W ere about
one mile from the others, under charge of a COM
pany Of cavalry. Whom the firing commenced,
the officer put US off in gallop, at the point of
tho lance, and rushed US seventy miles that day.


Thus we were brought on. Eighteen of the men,
among those who overPowered their guards. re-.
fused to accompany the others off. Four, of these
eighteen, were badly wounded, to wit: 1.-The brave
Captain Fitzgerald and Baker, and John Sansbu.
ry and Higgersen. Fitzerald and Iiiggerson died
soon after, the other two were left in the hospital


at San Luis Portosi, likely to recover. Cant.
c. h. Reese sod Stephen Cisrk, OF my county.
and twelve Others. are with US here. We, eieh.
tcen Mier prisoners, with those taken at Bexar.
on the llth Of SoPtembcr, making up the aggre.