Company reports, Austin Papers, K 7; General Orders, Order Book, pp. 53, 55, 57, 62, 68, 69, Austin Papers K 64; Minutes of Councils of War, Austin Papers, K 52, and Order Book, pp. 70-71; Austin to Perry, November 22, 1835, Austin Papers; Fannin to Houston, November 18, 1835, archives of Texas, D, file 6, No. 557; and Travis to Smith, December 3, 1835, file 18, No. 1757. For additional light on conditions at Bexar, see Johnson to Williamson, November 18, 1835 (archives of Texas, D, file 10, No. 926): “We have had considerable desertion in our lines since we arrived, which has been remedied in part by the recruits from different parts of the country who are coming almost daily. The camp is only kept together by the patriotism of the men and the unremitting exertions of the officers;” Rusk to Robinson, November 25, 1835 (archives of Texas, D, file 15, No. 1460): “We have had difficulties which none but those that have been engaged in them could well know;” James Cheshire and H. McHanks to Provisional Government, November 30, 1835, archives of Texas, D, file 3, No. 299; Mercer to Smith, December 25, 1835 (archives of Texas, D, file 13, No. 1264): “Our people met in a very disorganized manner and rather pr chance succeeded in taking San Antonio.”
