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Identifier: combatsconquests00barn (find matches)
Title: Combats and conquests of immortal heroes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Barnes, Charles Merritt
Subjects: San Antonio (Tex.) -- History Texas -- History
Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Guessaz & Ferlet company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed and slept lightly beneath the broad shade of thestately trees. On his way to battle with his brother of theNorth, in the great fratricidal struggle of the Civil War, theConfederate soldier had his camp, while in turn, after thatterrible struggle had ended his victorious adversary pitchedhis tentage. It was here and at the head of the San Antonio riverthat the great cholera scourge of 1869 dealt death in morehorrible form and decimated the Federal ranks, leaving manyto their eternal slumber after white winged peace spread hersnowy pinions above the hallowed dead. Now the livingare re-united in a grand brotherhood, intermingled in whichare those who had donned the blue and those who had doficdthe grey. Here the Aboriginal Indian will be seen nevermore, butthe mute testimony of his former presence is often foundin the shape of his rude and crude pottery, frequently un-earthed about the springs where his camp fires burned andhis spears and arrows yet may be picked up at its base wlicrc
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CO.MBATS AND CONQUESTS OF ImMORTAL HeROES 97 he hurled them against the old building still standing on thebrow of the hill overlooking the sparkling waters. It wasthrough the loopholes of this building, still to be seenstanding there, that its defenders fired upon the cruel Com-anche and the still more barberous Apache. The arrows,spears and pottery are mute evidences of the departed Indian,while the loopholes of this low squat structure scarred andfractured by the miissiles striking there, testify to the valorof the successful defenders and the edifice itself is a monumentto courageous heroes who contended there. Although the^rnames have never been written on the pages of history, theirbravery was as valliant as any that chivalry may boast. Until a few years ago, this naturally beautiful park wasleft almost in the state that Nature originally formed it, butwhen Marshall Hicks became the mayor of San Antonio hisadministration expended a considerable sum in improvingand giving it addit

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  • bookpublisher:San_Antonio__Tex____Guessaz___Ferlet_company
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  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:103
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  • bookcollection:americana
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