Scaggs, John H. Scott, Robert Seaton, George Washington Sharp, John Simpson, Jeremiah W. Smith, John G. Smith, William A. Smith, William P. Smith, William W. Snodgrass, J. G. Splane, Peyton R. Splane, Thomas M. Stephens, John Stevenson, Thomas B. Swoap, Benjamin Franklin Taylor, Josiah Teal, Henry Thompson, Thomas Tinnett, Robert Tollett, Wesley Tong, John B. Townsend, Moses Townsend, P. John Townsend, Stephen Townsend, William Vardeman, Henry W. Varner, Martin Vaughan, Richard Walker, John Walker, Josiah Walling, John C. Whitehead, Nicholas Whitlock, Robert Wilburn, Ransom Williams, Edward Williams, Hezekiah, Sr. Williams, Jesse Winnett, Robert Winters, Agabus Wood, William Riley Woods, Joseph H. Wright, Gilbert Yarborough, Joseph Randolph Zuber, William Physick ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Frontispiece “Battle of San Jacinto” is a photograph of a painting by Henry A. McArdle. Sam Houston’s picture is a photograph by Elwood M. Payne, of an etching made from a daguerreotype in the San Jacinto Museum of History. Mr. Payne also photographed the base of the monument, showing the inscriptions. Picture of Santa Anna is a photograph by Paul Peters of a daguerreotype in the Museum. The photographs of the Brigham monument and the Santa Anna surrender marker also are by Paul Peters. The surrender of Santa Anna is a photograph by Harry Pennington, Jr., of a painting by W. H. Huddle. The map showing the route of Sam Houston’s army was drawn by L. W. Kemp. Map of San Jacinto battleground by Ed Kilman. [Illustration: Bronze armillary sun dial erected on the battlefield in memory of the nine Texans killed or mortally wounded at San Jacinto. The dial, wrought by Julian Muench, measures twenty-five feet in circumference. It was constructed with funds raised by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the Texas Veterans association and was dedicated April 21, 1940.] Footnotes [1]This plantation belonging to Groce has been confused by the historian John Henry Brown, and perhaps others, with another plantation he owned which was situated in the present county of Grimes, and known as “Groce’s Retreat.” [2]Thomas J. Rusk, Secretary of War, and other Texans who were in the battle said the battle cry was “Remember the Alamo!” “Remember La Bahia!” [3]With “Deaf” Smith in the detail that destroyed the bridge were Young P. Alsbury, John Coker, John Garner, Moses Lapham. Edwin R. Rainwater and Dimer W. Reaves.