two of them, with Reuben R. Brown, rode overland, by an upper route, from Nacogdoches to Bexar, early in December, 1835, arriving at Bexar the day following the capitulation of Cos.

There they joined Captain B. L. Lawrence's Company and proceeded with it to Goliad, en route for Matamoros, and when Captain Lawrence, and nearly all of his men decided to quit Grant and join the Texan army, John H. Love and Reuben R. Brown left that company, and joined Llewellyn's, with which they went forward to San Patricio, and, after a few days, on a series of incursions into Tamaulipas.

Returning from the last of these, about February 23rd, Johnson and Grant separated at Santa Rosa, Johnson's party, numbering 34 men, returning to San Patricio with horses that had been gathered, while Grant's party of 26 continued on to the Camargo ranches for more horses. John H. Love accompanied Johnson as a quasi-aid-de-camp. At three o'clock in the morning of Feb. 27th, Johnson's party, at San Patricio, numbering 18 or 20 men -- besides a horse guard of 14 or 15, three miles distant. -- was surprised by the van of Urrea's army.

Johnson, John H. Love, David J. Toler  [Ed: "Daniel J. Toler" elsewhere] and John M. Miller  [Ed: James M. Miller in sketch and elsewhere], being, fortunately, awake, succeeded in making their escape, and reached Refugio during the evening of February 28th. From there Johnson, Love and Toler continued to San Felipe; while Miller remained with Col. Ward's command, and was captured with it and shot.