All Faiths Chapel
Commemorative Windows

Years before the Texas Revolution, settlers in the Bastrop, La Grange, and San Antonio area were subject to frequent Indian raids.

Green DeWitt, the empresario (land agent) of DeWitt’s Colony along the Guadalupe River, requested a cannon from the Mexican government for protection against these raids. In March, 1831, DeWitt received one bronze cannon with a stipulation that it be returned to Mexican authorities upon request.

By 1835, the winds of revolution began to sweep across Texas. Increasingly concerned over the fact that the settlement of Gonzales still possessed the little cannon, Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea, the Mexican military commander in Bexar,  sent 5 Soldiers with an oxcart to retrieve the cannon. 

The Gonzales Colonists informed Ugartechea that they were keeping the cannon and took the Soldiers prisoner. The cannon was then buried in colonist George Davis’s peach orchard. Couriers were then sent to the settlements on the Colorado River to obtain armed assistance.

Colonel Ugartechea responded by sending 100 Dragoons under Lieutenant Francisco de Castaneda to make a more serious request for the return of the gun. By this time, Captain Robert M. Coleman arrived at Gonzales with a militia company of thirty mounted Indian fighters. More colonists would rally and join the Texian militia until it numbered approximately 150 volunteers.

The Cannon, memorialized in the bottom panel of the window, was retrieved from its shallow grave, taken to John Sowell's blacksmith shop, and mounted on the fore-wheels of Albert Martin’s cotton wagon.

The Gonzales Flag & “Come and Take It” , depicted in the middle panel of the window, refers to the motto adopted by the Texian rebels. A few days prior to the battle, two young ladies from Gonzales, Caroline Zumwalt and Eveline DeWitt, hastily prepared a flag with an image of a cannon, a star, and the words “Come and Take It”. This flag was raised above the Gonzales cannon during the battle on 02 October, and later carried with the gun toward San Antonio, but was soon lost without a trace.

Gonzales 1835: The Battle Streamer “Gonzales 1835” in the top panel of the window, commemorates the skirmish on 02 October 1835 when the Texian militia faced the Mexican Army at Gonzales. Shots were exchanged and the little cannon fired twice on this day. Lieutenant Casteneda, wanting to avoid a larger battle and possibly incite a revolution, withdrew his Dragoons back to Bexar without the cannon. 

The Battle of Gonzales is widely considered to be The First Battle of the Texas Revolution.

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association: 

The Gonzales Flag
Green DeWitt
The Little Cannon
Battle of Gonzales, 1835

Years before the Texas Revolution, settlers in the Bastrop, La Grange, and San Antonio area were subject to frequent Indian raids.

Green DeWitt, the empresario (land agent) of DeWitt’s Colony along the Guadalupe River, requested a cannon from the Mexican government for protection against these raids. In March, 1831, DeWitt received one bronze cannon with a stipulation that it be returned to Mexican authorities upon request.

By 1835, the winds of revolution began to sweep across Texas. Increasingly concerned over the fact that the settlement of Gonzales still possessed the little cannon, Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea, the Mexican military commander in Bexar,  sent 5 Soldiers with an oxcart to retrieve the cannon. 

The Gonzales Colonists informed Ugartechea that they were keeping the cannon and took the Soldiers prisoner. The cannon was then buried in colonist George Davis’s peach orchard. Couriers were then sent to the settlements on the Colorado River to obtain armed assistance.

Colonel Ugartechea responded by sending 100 Dragoons under Lieutenant Francisco de Castaneda to make a more serious request for the return of the gun. By this time, Captain Robert M. Coleman arrived at Gonzales with a militia company of thirty mounted Indian fighters. More colonists would rally and join the Texian militia until it numbered approximately 150 volunteers.

The Cannon, memorialized in the bottom panel of the window, was retrieved from its shallow grave, taken to John Sowell's blacksmith shop, and mounted on the fore-wheels of Albert Martin’s cotton wagon.

The Gonzales Flag & “Come and Take It” , depicted in the middle panel of the window, refers to the motto adopted by the Texian rebels. A few days prior to the battle, two young ladies from Gonzales, Caroline Zumwalt and Eveline DeWitt, hastily prepared a flag with an image of a cannon, a star, and the words “Come and Take It”. This flag was raised above the Gonzales cannon during the battle on 02 October, and later carried with the gun toward San Antonio, but was soon lost without a trace.

Gonzales 1835: The Battle Streamer “Gonzales 1835” in the top panel of the window, commemorates the skirmish on 02 October 1835 when the Texian militia faced the Mexican Army at Gonzales. Shots were exchanged and the little cannon fired twice on this day. Lieutenant Casteneda, wanting to avoid a larger battle and possibly incite a revolution, withdrew his Dragoons back to Bexar without the cannon. 

The Battle of Gonzales is widely considered to be The First Battle of the Texas Revolution.

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association: 

The Gonzales Flag
Green DeWitt
The Little Cannon
Battle of Gonzales, 1835

Years before the Texas Revolution, settlers in the Bastrop, La Grange, and San Antonio area were subject to frequent Indian raids.

Green DeWitt, the empresario (land agent) of DeWitt’s Colony along the Guadalupe River, requested a cannon from the Mexican government for protection against these raids. In March, 1831, DeWitt received one bronze cannon with a stipulation that it be returned to Mexican authorities upon request.

By 1835, the winds of revolution began to sweep across Texas. Increasingly concerned over the fact that the settlement of Gonzales still possessed the little cannon, Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea, the Mexican military commander in Bexar,  sent 5 Soldiers with an oxcart to retrieve the cannon. 

The Gonzales Colonists informed Ugartechea that they were keeping the cannon and took the Soldiers prisoner. The cannon was then buried in colonist George Davis’s peach orchard. Couriers were then sent to the settlements on the Colorado River to obtain armed assistance.

Colonel Ugartechea responded by sending 100 Dragoons under Lieutenant Francisco de Castaneda to make a more serious request for the return of the gun. By this time, Captain Robert M. Coleman arrived at Gonzales with a militia company of thirty mounted Indian fighters. More colonists would rally and join the Texian militia until it numbered approximately 150 volunteers.

The Cannon, memorialized in the bottom panel of the window, was retrieved from its shallow grave, taken to John Sowell's blacksmith shop, and mounted on the fore-wheels of Albert Martin’s cotton wagon.

The Gonzales Flag & “Come and Take It” , depicted in the middle panel of the window, refers to the motto adopted by the Texian rebels. A few days prior to the battle, two young ladies from Gonzales, Caroline Zumwalt and Eveline DeWitt, hastily prepared a flag with an image of a cannon, a star, and the words “Come and Take It”. This flag was raised above the Gonzales cannon during the battle on 02 October, and later carried with the gun toward San Antonio, but was soon lost without a trace.

Gonzales 1835: The Battle Streamer “Gonzales 1835” in the top panel of the window, commemorates the skirmish on 02 October 1835 when the Texian militia faced the Mexican Army at Gonzales. Shots were exchanged and the little cannon fired twice on this day. Lieutenant Casteneda, wanting to avoid a larger battle and possibly incite a revolution, withdrew his Dragoons back to Bexar without the cannon. 

The Battle of Gonzales is widely considered to be The First Battle of the Texas Revolution.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9313/rec/7

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association: 

The Gonzales Flag
Green DeWitt
The Little Cannon
Battle of Gonzales, 1835

Years before the Texas Revolution, settlers in the Bastrop, La Grange, and San Antonio area were subject to frequent Indian raids.

Green DeWitt, the empresario (land agent) of DeWitt’s Colony along the Guadalupe River, requested a cannon from the Mexican government for protection against these raids. In March, 1831, DeWitt received one bronze cannon with a stipulation that it be returned to Mexican authorities upon request.

By 1835, the winds of revolution began to sweep across Texas. Increasingly concerned over the fact that the settlement of Gonzales still possessed the little cannon, Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea, the Mexican military commander in Bexar,  sent 5 Soldiers with an oxcart to retrieve the cannon. 

The Gonzales Colonists informed Ugartechea that they were keeping the cannon and took the Soldiers prisoner. The cannon was then buried in colonist George Davis’s peach orchard. Couriers were then sent to the settlements on the Colorado River to obtain armed assistance.

Colonel Ugartechea responded by sending 100 Dragoons under Lieutenant Francisco de Castaneda to make a more serious request for the return of the gun. By this time, Captain Robert M. Coleman arrived at Gonzales with a militia company of thirty mounted Indian fighters. More colonists would rally and join the Texian militia until it numbered approximately 150 volunteers.

The Cannon, memorialized in the bottom panel of the window, was retrieved from its shallow grave, taken to John Sowell's blacksmith shop, and mounted on the fore-wheels of Albert Martin’s cotton wagon.

The Gonzales Flag & “Come and Take It” , depicted in the middle panel of the window, refers to the motto adopted by the Texian rebels. A few days prior to the battle, two young ladies from Gonzales, Caroline Zumwalt and Eveline DeWitt, hastily prepared a flag with an image of a cannon, a star, and the words “Come and Take It”. This flag was raised above the Gonzales cannon during the battle on 02 October, and later carried with the gun toward San Antonio, but was soon lost without a trace.

Gonzales 1835: The Battle Streamer “Gonzales 1835” in the top panel of the window, commemorates the skirmish on 02 October 1835 when the Texian militia faced the Mexican Army at Gonzales. Shots were exchanged and the little cannon fired twice on this day. Lieutenant Casteneda, wanting to avoid a larger battle and possibly incite a revolution, withdrew his Dragoons back to Bexar without the cannon. 

The Battle of Gonzales is widely considered to be The First Battle of the Texas Revolution.

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association: 

The Gonzales Flag
Green DeWitt
The Little Cannon
Battle of Gonzales, 1835

Nicholas Adolph Stern and the people of New Orleans enthusiastically supported the Texas Cause. He helped raise two companies of volunteers, approximately 120 men total, and the Volunteers departed for Texas. The First Company was commanded of Captain T.H. Breece. The Second Company was commanded by Captain Robert C. Morris.

As they entered Texas, the Volunteers were met by a delegation of ladies from East Texas who made a flag of blue silk with an eagle design, gold fringe, and lettering identifying the company, “First Company Texas Volunteers from New Orleans”

ALAMO 1836: The Battle Streamer, “Alamo 1836” in the top panel of the window, commemorates the Battle for the Alamo, 1836. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna commanded a large Army of about 4000 Soldiers. He marched his forces from Mexico City into San Antonio. The Mexican Army then surrounded the Alamo, an old Spanish mission, and its roughly 200 Texan Defenders commanded by Colonel William B. Travis.

Travis refused to surrender the Alamo. After 13 days of fighting, Mexican Forces overwhelmed the mission in the early morning hours of 6 March 1836. The Flag of the New Orlean Greys was torn from the Alamo by victorious Mexican Soldiers.

The Window memorializes this moment. In the background, Soldiers continue to fight as the red, white, and green Mexican Flag is raised high, symbolizing victory. In the forefront, a Mexican Soldier is seen falling from the ramparts as he pulls down the Flag of the New Orlean Greys.

In this Flag, General Santa Anna wrapped his dispatch announcing the Fall of the Alamo and sent it back to Mexico City. To this day, the Flag of the New Orlean Greys resides as a captured battle flag in the National Historical Museum in Mexico City.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9360/rec/11

Read More about it from the Texas State Historical Association:

Flag of the New Orlean Greys
Revolution New Orlean Greys
Nicholas Adolph Stern
The Alamo, 1836

The settlement at Harrisburg, near Houston, raised a company of Volunteers to defend them and to fight in the Texas Revolution. Included in this company was a young officer, Lieutenant Archaelaus B. Dodson, whose bride, Sarah Dodson, took it upon herself to design a flag for the newly formed company.

This Window memorializes the moment when Sarah Dodson presents the flag to her husband. The Flag of the Harrisburg Volunteers is considered a forerunner of the present day Texas Flag.

It has three equal panels of red, white, and blue. All three panels were vertical with a white star in the blue field. In comparison to the modern day Texas Flag, the red and white bands are parallel to the ground.

The flag was carried by the Harrisburg Volunteers as they marched to the aid of settlers at Gonzales, and it flew later at the Siege of Bejar (October – December, 1835).

Palo Alto 1846: At the top of the window is the Battle Streamer, “Palo Alto 1846”. Palo Alto is not a battle in the Texas Revolution. After Texas became the 28th State of the United States on 29 December 1845, international border disputes arose with Mexico.

As a result, Mexican Forces crossed the Rio Grande River and attacked Federal Forces stationed at Fort Brown (near present-day Brownsville, Texas). On 8 May 1846, the US Army repelled the larger Mexican Army, causing them to withdraw back to Mexico.

The Battle of Palo Alto is considered the First Battle of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9407/rec/13

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Flag of the Harrisburg Volunteers
LT Archaelaus B. Dodson
Sarah Dodson
Battle of Palo Alto, 1846

A wealthy planter, William Scott, raised a company of thirty volunteers at Lynchburg, near Houston. Captain Scott gave four yards of blue silk to an enterprising young officer, Lieutenant James McGahey, and instructed the young man to make it into a flag for the company.

McGahey obtained the help of Mrs. John Lynch, along with an Italian artist named Charles Zanco. A large white Lone Star was painted in the center of the blue silk with one word, “INDEPENDENCE”, below the star.

Battles: This flag is believed to have been carried by the Volunteers at the Battle of Concepcion in October, 1835, where McGahey was wounded. It is also believed that the flag was carried at the Siege of Bejar in December, 1835. The flag has been called “Scotts Flag” after the Captain who raised and trained the company.

The Siege of Bejar: The Battle Streamer “ Siege of Bejar 1835” in the upper panel of the window commemorates the First Campaign of the Texas Revolution. From October until early December 1835, an army of Texan volunteers laid siege to a Mexican army in San Antonio de Béxar.

First Texian Casualty of the Revolution: During an attack on the fort at Goliad on 9 October 1835, Private Samuel McCollough, Jr. was the only person wounded in the fight. He joined the Matagorda Volunteer Company four days before the attack and is considered the first casualty of the Texas Revolution.

McCollough, a freed African American, moved to Texas with is father, Samuel McCollough, Sr. and his three sisters in May, 1835. He is memorialized in this window as the person raising “Scotts Flag of Independence”.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall: https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9328/

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Flag of the Lynchburg Volunteers
Captain William Scott
Private Samuel McCulloch, Jr.
Siege of Bejar, 1835

Goliad 1835: Painted on a blue field imposed over the United States Flag was an outstretched arm holding a Roman short sword from which drops of blood fall on the shoulder. It was often called the “Flag of the Bloody Shoulder”.

It is believed that Captain William S. Brown, a Texas Naval Officer, made this flag at Velasco in the Fall of 1835 and flew it during the Siege of Bejar (12 October-11 December, 1835). He then took the flag to Presidio La Bahia in Goliad where, on 20 December 1835, the garrison of the fort signed the first Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas. Captain Browns Flag was one of several flags present at the signing.

The signing of the Declaration of Texas Independence is the moment memorialized in this window.

Neches 1839: At the top of the window, the Battle Streamer, “Neches 1839” commemorates another battle, the Battle of Neches on 16 July 1839. The battle was fought in East Texas against the Cherokee Indians. It was a victory for the Texas Army during which Cherokee War Chief, Chief John Watts Bowles, was killed.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9364/rec/12​​​​​​​

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association:

Flag of the Bloody Sword
Goliad Declaration of Independence
Captain William S. Brown
Battle of Neches, 1849

In 1835, with revolution on the horizon, the Texas Provincial Government realized the need for a navy to protect the lines of supply between New Orleans and Texas. In November, the General Council passed a bill providing for the purchase of four schooners and for the organization of the Texas Navy. The same bill provided for the issuance of letters of marque to privateers to authorize the small Texas Navy to operate its vessels on the high seas legitimately.

The vessels of the first Texas Navy were the 60-ton William Robbins, which was converted to a schooner of war and rechristened Liberty, the 125-ton Invincible, which had been built in Baltimore for the African slave trade, the 125-ton Independence, which had been the United States Revenue Cutter Ingham, and the 125-ton Brutus.

On 12 March, President David G. Burnet appointed officers for the ships, naming Captain Charles E. Hawkins, who was senior captain, as Commodore of the Texas Navy. In addition to protecting the Texas coast, the navy also seized Mexican ships and sent their cargoes to the aid of the Texas volunteers.

The Hawkins Flag: According to international custom, ships representing nations or governments must fly an ensign; otherwise they would be considered pirates. Designed by Commodore Hawkins, the Flag of the Texas Navy copied the United States flag. The only change; a Lone Star replaced several stars in the field of blue.

SABINE PASS, 1863: The Battle Streamer, “Sabine Pass 1863” commemorates not a battle in the Texas Revolution, but of the Civil War – the Battle of Sabine Pass in September, 1863. During this Civil War battle, stationed in the Sabine Pass was a Confederate naval gunship, the cotton clad Uncle Ben. The Davis Guards, a shore battery of about 48 Rebel Soldiers and 5 cannons commanded by Dick Dowling, was stationed at the entrance of the Pass.

During the battle, the Davis Guards and the Uncle Ben successfully disabled four Union gunboats: the Arizona, the Granite City, the Sachem, and the Clifton. Although outnumbered, The Texas Navy and the Davis Guards performed remarkably well given the odds of battle.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9358/rec/3

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association:

The Texas Navy
The Battle of Sabine Pass 1863
Commodore Charles E. Hawkins

San Felipe de Austin was the first settlement of American Families in Texas to receive a land grant from the Mexican government. The colony, near present day Sealy, Texas, was established by Moses Austin on the Brazos River in 1824.

Stephen F. Austin, Moses’s son, would continue to develop San Felipe and it quickly became the political, economic, and cultural center of the vast colony. By the eve of the revolution, San Felipe ranked second in Texas only to San Antonio as a thriving commercial center. Colonel William B. Travis, commander of the garrison at the Alamo, once held a law office in San Felipe.

The city was the site of several pre-war conventions and was, at one time, the Capital of the provisional government. After the fall of the Alamo in 1836, General Sam Houston's army retreated through San Felipe.

San Felipe Volunteers: Depicted in this window are Soldiers of Company D, First Regiment of Texan Volunteers, under the command of Captain Mosley Baker. Baker’s Company remained in San Felipe to defend the Brazos River crossing point. Their actions at the ford delayed General Santa Anna’s Army for days and prevented him from capturing Houston’s forces. The Volunteers would later re-join General Houston’s Army at the Battle of San Jacinto in April, 1836.

The Flag of the San Felipe Volunteers, also known as Bakers Flag, was presented to the Company on 02 March 1836 by Gail Borden, Jr. who would later found the Borden Company. It consisted of thirteen alternating red and white stripes with the words "OUR COUNTRY'S RIGHTS OR DEATH" written on the white stripes. In the top corner was a blue and white British Union Jack, and below the Union was a white Lone Star on a green square.

PLUM CREEK 1840: The Battle Streamer, “ Plum Creek 1840” represents a battle in the Indian Wars of Texas. In the summer of 1840 the Comanches swept down the Guadalupe valley, killing settlers, stealing horses, plundering, and burning settlements. The Texans organized a Volunteer Army, to include Texas Rangers, and overtook the Comanches at Plum Creek near present-day Lockhart, Texas. The decisive defeat of the Comanches on 11 August 1840 pushed the Native Americans westward.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9486/rec/17

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association:

Bakers Flag
CPT Mosley Baker
Plum Creek, 1840

Captain Sydney Sherman, an entrepreneur in Newport, Kentucky, answered the call of the Texas Revolution by forming the Newport Kentucky Rifle Company. Sherman sold his business in 1835 in order to equip and transport his 52 Kentucky Volunteers to Texas.

The Flag of the Kentucky Volunteers, later to become the San Jacinto Flag, is depicted in this window. The flag was allegedly painted by James H. Beard and presented to the Rifle Company by Katherine Isabelle (Cox) Sherman, Captain Sherman's wife. The flag is made of white silk with the painted figure of a partially bare-breasted woman grasping in one hand a sword over which is draped a streamer with the words "LIBERTY OR DEATH."

Upon arriving in Texas, Captain Sherman and his Rifle Company joined General Sam Houston. He was promoted to Colonel and given command of the Second Regiment of the Texas Army.

SAN JACINTO, 1836: The Battle Streamer, “ San Jacinto 1836” at the top of the panel, commemorates the battle that gave Texas its independence from Mexico. After weeks of strategic retreating from General Santa Anna’s Army, General Sam Houston faced the Mexican Army near the San Jacinto River.

At the battle, there were four flags present – three of them were Mexican battle flags and the fourth was the San Jacinto Flag. Sherman commanded the left wing of the Texas army, opened the attack, and has been credited with the battle cry, "Remember the Alamo!“

Within eighteen minutes, the battle was over. The Texas Army, bent on revenge, totally devastated the Mexican Army. General Santa Anna, disguised as a common Soldier, was eventually captured and signed the Treaty of Velasco giving Texas its independence.

The San Jacinto Flag currently resides in the Texas Senate Chambers at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9359/rec/8

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association:

The San Jacinto Flag
CPT Sydney Sherman
Battle of San Jacinto

THE ALABAMA RED ROVERS: In response to a plea for help that was printed in the Huntsville, Alabama Democrat, one third of the population of Courtland, Alabama answered the call to help Texas. In November, 1835, Captain John Shackelford, a local physician, organized between 60-70 Volunteers into a unit known as the Alabama Red Rovers. This unit would later become part of Colonel James Fannin’s Lafayette Battalion.

The company was so named for the fact that its members wore distinctive red uniforms, represented in this window. The ladies and children of Courtland rallied to create two uniforms for their deploying husbands, fathers, and nephews. One uniform was created for field use and one for formal dress. The field uniform consisted of caped hunting frocks and jeans made of a rusty red-dyed linsey-woolsey, with large hunting knives strapped to their hips and coonskin caps atop their heads. Their dress uniforms were red velveteen jackets and caps worn with white pants and a blue sash.

The Flag of the Alabama Volunteers, depicted in the upper panel, was presented by the women of Courtland before the unit departed for Texas. The banner was simple; a solid red square panel that could easily be identified on the battlefield.

Battle of Coleto, 1836: The Battle Streamer, “Coleto 1836” at the top of the window, represents the Battle of Coleto where Colonel James Fannin reluctantly surrendered his forces to General Jose de Urrea.

As part of Fannin’s Regiment, the Red Rovers were marched back to La Bahia de Presidio. On Palm Sunday, 27 March 1836, all of Fannin’s men that were well enough to travel were marched from the Presidio under false pretenses. Within a couple miles of the fort, they were halted and immediately massacred. The wounded back at the fort were dragged out of the church and executed.

Sources vary, but between four – fifteen Red Rovers escaped the gruesome death at the hands of Urrea’s Soldiers. Captain Shackelford was spared because of his medical expertise. He later returned to Courtland, alone, in July, 1836.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9330/rec/2

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The Alabama Red Rovers:
The Battle of Coleto, 1836
Massacre of Goliad, 1836

This window commemorates the spirit of the Georgia Battalion of Permanent Volunteers, a unit initially consisting of about 120 Volunteers from Macon, Millidgeville, and Columbus Georgia. While en route to Texas, the unit would gain additional men and swell its ranks to about 220 Volunteers. In December, 1835, Colonel William Ward presented his Battalion to Colonel James Fannin for service in the revolution near present-day Velasco, Texas.

Colonel Ward of Macon, Georgia, organized his Battalion into three companies in November, 1835. The unit was armed, supplied, and transported to Texas at great personal expense and with the aid of the Georgia State Arsenal.

The Georgia Volunteers hold a unique position in the Texas Revolution since Georgia was possibly the only State in the Union to supply arms from its State arsenal to a Texas revolutionary force.

The Flag of the Georgia Volunteers, depicted in this window, was designed and embroidered by Miss Joanna Troutman of Knoxville, Georgia. On one side of the solid white flag, she embroidered a blue Lone Star and the phrase, “Liberty or Death”. On the opposite side, Miss Troutman embroidered the Latin phrase, "Ubi Libertas habitat, ibi nostra patria est" ("Where Liberty dwells, there is our fatherland").

Goliad 1836: The Battle Streamer, “Goliad 1836”, memorializes the infamous Goliad Massacre of 1836 that occurred at sunrise on Palm Sunday, 27 March 1836.

Reluctantly acting upon the orders of General Santa Anna, General Jose de Urrea marched between 340-445 of Colonel James Fannin’s surrendered Texian Soldiers to an open field. The unsuspecting Soldiers, believing they were being marched to Matamoros, were brutally executed. There were few survivors.

“Remember the Alamo! … Remember Goliad!” would later become the battle cry for General Sam Houston’s Army at the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 April 1836.

Original Painting by Bruce Marshall:
https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/9356/rec/10

Read More About It from the Texas State Historical Association:

Flag of the Georgia Volunteers & Miss Troutman
The Georgia Battalion
Goliad Massacre of 1836