that and the following day.

A tradition (attributed by his descendants, mistakenly, to the Mier campaign) is that at the massacre of King's men he was taken out to be shot, and that he opened his shirt and told the executioners to fire. The enemy then told him that he was too brave a man to be put to death, and gave him some skilled work to do as an excuse for sparing his life.

Benjamin Digby Odlum was born in Liverpool, of an old and distinguished British family. He was a quiet and modest man: so much so that he never applied for the bounty and donation lands to which he was entitled, under the law, as one of Fannin's men. His only son, Frederick Odlum, was a drummer boy in the Confederate army, and was killed in battle, in Louisiana, in 1862; while his only daughter became the wife of Dick Dowling, hero of the unique Civil War battle of Sabine Pass. Mrs. W. F. Robertson of Austin, Texas, is a child of this marriage.   [Ed: "Benjamin Odlum" received Donation Certificate 616 for "being in the battle at Refugio" (Miller 1967).]
 

On the same certificate on which Oscar F. Leverett was paid, James S. Gillett, adjutant general, certified that the name of John M. Oliver appears as a private under the command of Captain Winn, who also fell with Colonel Fannin, bounty and donation land having also been issued to the heirs of both these deceased soldiers.

Oliver was paid as a private in Winn's Company,