artillery on the occasion of a night alarm, some nights previous to March 12th.

Holland wrote an interesting account of Fannin's battle and the massacre, from which he escaped, being one of the first of those who did so to make his way to the Texan army. [CMSR No. 549; Brigham's No. 111; Holland's own narrative; William Fairfax Gray, Diary.]
 

John C. Holliday was originally a member of Lawrence's Company which was incorporated with Duval's after Fannin's arrival at Refugio. He escaped from the massacre in company with John C. Duval and Samuel T. Brown. Brown and Duval were subsequently retaken by enemy scouts. They escaped, but Duval did not rejoin his companions. Brown and Holliday continued in company to the Brazos. Holliday swam the river and escaped; Brown could not cross and was retaken by the enemy.

Holliday was afterward a captain in the Texan Regular Army. [See Duval, Early Times in Texas; Samuel T. Brown's narratives in Lamar Papers, and Texas Almanac, 1860; and Holliday's own story, from Bedford Inquirer, in Richmond Telescope, July 3, 1839.]