Shackelford's Company. Hamilton was so badly wounded, in both legs, that he became unable to travel, even with the help of his companions, and was left, near Texana, to die, but revived, later, and escaped. Cooper, Brooks and Simpson made their way to Mercer's Crossing on the Colorado [near Egypt].

In 1874 Cooper was living at Columbus, in Colorado county, Texas, being then 59 years of age. Mrs. Fannie A. D. Darden, who, in 1870, preserved Cooper's recollections of the massacre, said:

"Mr. Dillard Cooper lives about three miles from Columbus, and has been a resident of Colorado county for somewhat over 31 years. He ... was slightly wounded at the battle of Coleto ... He is over six feet in height, with light hair and blue eyes, and his form and proportions seem well fitted for the part he had to play ... He commenced by saying that for several years after the massacre he could not recount it without shedding tears."

The Philadelphia National Gazette for May 5, 6, & 19, 1836 [as quoted by James E. Winston, Quarterly, XVII, p. 268] stated that George Copeland was one of the Johnson & Grant prisoners ordered shot at Matamoros on April 14th, and that he was 16 years of age. However, he was living in Contra Costa county, California in 1874, at which time the Texas