Veteran's Association record his age as being 58, which would have made him 19 when captured at San Patricio, Feb. 27, 1836.
Mahan says that Copeland was one of a squad of eight men, detailed at that time under First Sergeant William Langenheim of Pearson's Company, to guard the horses of Johnson's party, at Julian's Rancho, some three miles below the town, where he was captured by the enemy, and, along with Langenheim, Mahan, and eleven of Llewellyn's men, was taken to Matamoros where they suffered the vicissitudes detailed by Potter in "Prisoners of Matamoros." [Baker's Texas Scrapbook, p. 591; Mahan, P. J., M.D.S. State Library.]
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This, the proper form of this soldier's name, is to be found on LOMR for Winn's Company; but on T&TR and its several revisions it appears, badly mutilated as, "Corbys," and "Crosby." Cosby is a well known Virginia - Georgia family name. All the sources agree that he was a private in Captain Winn's Company who perished at the general massacre of March 27, 1836.
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