from Cos' army; who were at the head of the enemy's spy service, with headquarters at Carlos' Rancho.

In the action of March 19th, Wallace failed to attract any special attention, but he was one of Fannin's commissioners at the surrender next day. Benjamin H. Holland says that he saw him at the massacre, on March 27, 1836, an instant before Wallace and nearly all the other Texans were killed.
 

The original T&TR roll of Fannin's men, and the LOMR for Wadsworth's Company both indicate that Samuel P. Wallace escaped from the massacre on March 27, 1836. The affirmative testimony of these two sources would seem conclusive, but for the fact that this soldier's pay was collected Dec. 29, 1837 by his brother, W. A. A. Wallace -- "Big Foot" -- as administrator. It may be, of course, that Samuel P. Wallace escaped from the massacre and soon afterward died, but no proof has been found that such was the case, and the compiler is inclined to the opinion that in the case of Samuel P. Wallace, as in that of Joseph Tatem, there was a mistaken notation on the rolls.

Biographies of W. A. A. Wallace ("Big Foot") relate that he came to Texas in the autumn of 1836, aged 19, from his home at Lexington, Virginia, upon learning that his brother, Samuel Wallace, and a cousin, William Wallace, had