The Battle of Gonzales (Texas)
“On October 2, when Lieutenant Castañeda requested that the cannon be returned under the terms of the original agreement, the Texians simply pointed to the weapon sitting 200 yards behind them saying, “There it is. Come and take it.”
“The Battle of Gonzales (Texas)”
My ancestor Richard Miller was there and was also one of the “Old Eighteen” who stopped the first, smaller contingent that tried to take the cannon. He rode through Santa Anna’s troops surrounding the Alamo with 31 other men from Gonzales and into the Alamo where he died in the battle. My GGGG uncle, Deaf “Erastus” Smith, was Sam Houston’s scout and helped bury the burned remains of the Alamo Defenders.
The rumors that I heard was that the cannon ended up buried in Sandies Creek, west of Gonzales near some of our family land.