William Hadden, before enlisting in Horton's Company, had served at Goliad with Collinsworth's and Dimitt's Companies and knew the country from Goliad to the Texan settlements much better than did any one else who escaped. His story was simple. He and three others of his division were missed at the first fire, and ran for some bushes at a hundred yards distance. They were pursued by the enemy, but he threw himself into some high grass, and the enemy, in pursuit of the others, lost sight of him. He lay there until night and then made his escape.

John J. Linn says that when Hadden came in (he has the name "Hobson,") he was sent for to identify him, as some doubted the truth of his tale. During the first night after the massacre he had passed over Fannin's battleground. ... The bodies of the slain yet remained on the field. [Linn's Reminiscences, p. 50.]
 

The name of "William Hall" appears on Pittman's copy of Llewellyn's muster roll, without any notation to indicate that he was killed. Pittman's notations, however, or the lack of them, are not infallible, and Hall may have