And below is the love song, then popular, which one of Houston’s charging soldiers is said to have played on the flute: “WILL YOU COME TO THE BOWER”
“This monument stands at the grave of BENJAMIN RICE BRIGHAM who was mortally wounded April 21, 1836
LEMUEL STOCKTON BLAKEY JOHN C. HALE GEORGE A. LAMB DR. WM. JUNIUS MOTTLEY MATHIAS COOPER THOMAS PATTON FOWLE ASHLEY R. STEPHENS
“Who were also killed or mortally wounded in the battle of San Jacinto
“OLWYN J. TRASK died on Galveston Island on about May 20 from the effects of the wound he had received on the San Jacinto Battlefield in the skirmish of April 20, 1836.
“This shaft was erected in 1881 by voluntary contributions of citizens of Texas to forever mark the spot where these heroes sleep and to perpetuate a knowledge of their names and prowess”
On the base following this tribute is the war cry, “REMEMBER GOLIAD”
[Illustration: MY COUNTRY WILL DO JUSTICE TO THEM WHO SERVE HER
THE RIGHT FOR WHICH WE FIGHT WILL BE RESCUED AND TEXAS FREE
OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE TEXAS ARMY WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE BATTLE FOUGHT HERE APRIL 21 1836 OR IN THE SKIRMISH OF THE PREVIOUS DAY]
One of the two great bronze plaques that adorn the walls of the San Jacinto museum records the names of the officers and men of the Texas army who fought in the battle on April 21, 1836, and in the skirmish of the previous day. The other plaque lists the troops, mostly sick or non-effective, who were left at Harrisburg two days before the battle.
Following is the roster of the participants at San Jacinto:
Adams, Thomas Jefferson Aldrich, Collin Alexander, Jerome B. Allen, John Melville Allison, John C. Allison, Moses Alsbury, Horace Arlington Alsbury, Young Perry Anderson, Washington Andrews, Micah Angel, John Anson, Orin D. Armot, W. S. Armstrong, Irwin Arnold, Hayden Arocha, Jose Maria Arocha, Manuel Arreola, Simon Atkinson, Milton B. Avery, Willis
Bailey, Alexander Bailey, Howard W. Bain, Noel M. Baker, Daniel Davis D. Baker, Joseph Baker, Moseley Balch, Hezekiah Benjamin Balch, John Bancroft, Jethro Russell Banks, Reason Barcinas, Andres Bardwell, Soloman B. Barker, George Barkley, John A. Barr, Robert Barstow, Joshua Bateman, William Barton, Jefferson A. Barton, Wayne Barton, Elder B. Baxter, Montgomery Baylor, Dr. John Walker Bear, Isaac H. Beard, Andrew Jackson Beason, Leander Beauchamp, John Beebe, John N. Begley, John Belden, John Belknap, Thomas Bell, James Madison Bell, Peter Hansbrough Bell, Thomas Henry Bennett, Joseph L. Bennett, W. B. Bennett, William Benson, Ellis Benton, Alfred Benton, Daniel Bernardi, Prospero Bernbeck, Wilhelm Christoph Frederick Berry, Andrew Jackson Berryhill, William M. Billingsley, Jesse Bingham, Mathias A. Bird, James Birt, Samuel Pearce Bissett, Robert B. Blackwell, Thomas Blakey, Lemuel Stockton Bledsoe, George L. Blue, Uriah Bollinger, Ephriam Bollinger, Peter Bond, Henry Booker, Dr. Shields Boom, Garret E. Borden, John Pettit Borden, Paschal Pavolo Bostick, Sion Record Bottsford, Seymour Bowen, William Robert Box, James Edward Box, John Andrew Box, Nelson Box, Thomas Griffin Boyd, James C. Boyle, William Bradley, Isaac B. Bradley, James Brake, Michael J. Branch, Edward Thomas Breeding, Fidelie S. Breedlove, A. W. Brenan, William Brewer, Henry Mitchell Brewster, Henry Percy Brigham, Benjamin Rice Brigham, Moses W. Briscoe, Andrew Brookfield, Francis E. Brooks, Thomas D. Brown, David Brown, George J. Brown, Oliver T. Brown, Wilson C. Browning, George Washington Bruff, Christopher Columbus Bryan, Luke O. Bryan, Moses Austin Bryant, Benjamin Franklin Buffington, Anderson Buford, Thomas Young Bullock, David M. Bunton, John Wheeler Burleson, Aaron Burleson, Edward Burnam, John Hickerson Burnam, William Owen Burton, Isaac Watts Bust, Luke W. Butts, Augustus J.