ence. "Santa Anna is whipped," he said at last."How do you know that?""Because I don't hear the sound of his guns."(Hoyt 158)Jimmie Curtis had his son-in-law, George Washington Cottle fall at the Alamo, and so had his brother-in-law, Thomas J. Jackson. Curtis clubbed his rifle and went tearing through the gap in the breastworks, breaking skulls to right and left. Colonel John Wharton tried to stop the slaughter. He saw Jimmie Curtis threatening a Mexican officer with a Bowie knife(Hoyt )158.The colonel hoisted a Mexican officer up behind him on his horse. "Men, this Mexican is mine." Jimmie Curtis took aim and blasted the Mexican off the back of the horse, turned and walked away. Other soldiers had lost relatives in the Goliad Massacre and they now got back some of their own, slashing, bashing, and shooting every Mexican they encountered(Hoyt )158.Colonel Delgado observed General Santa Anna. "I saw His Excellency running about in the utmost excitement, wringing his hands, unable to give an order." Delgado's last view of General Castrilln was a heroic one; the general had recovered enough to mount an ammunition case, and arms folded, was glaring down at his enemies. His men called him to flee with them, but he refused. "I have been in forty battles," he said, "and I have never yet turned my back on the enemy. I am too old to change." Secretary Rusk tried to save the old general. He threw up several rifle barrels that were aiming at the general. But other Texans drew a bead on the general's chest and riddled him with bullets(Hoyt 159,162).Colonel Wharton tried again. They had done enough killing. He rode along the shore of Peggy Lake, where the Mexicans were floundering in the water and being mercilessly executed. "Mi no Alamo. Mi no Goliad," one boy cried to a soldier on the bank. The Texan soldier took aim with his musket and shot the boy in the head(Hoyt 162).Wharton ordered his men to cease fire. J.H.T. Dixon, one of the reveng...
