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Post by Bill Yowell on Sept 15, 2011 14:35:22 GMT -5
I have been catching up on reading previous threads on the forum. In the thread on "executions", Mark Lemon makes reference to nine deserters. In all my readings, I somehow missed or don't remember reading about desertions. Could someone point me to a book or books which discuss this matter, as I should have the resource in my collection. At what stage of the siege did they leave. If their escape was complete, would not these people have been a source of much information about the doings inside the compound during the siege. Thanks in advance for your response and as always your valuable insight.
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Post by TRK on Sept 15, 2011 15:25:05 GMT -5
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Sept 15, 2011 19:45:26 GMT -5
Interesting. Somehow, I never came across this story before now.
Paul
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Post by Herb on Sept 29, 2011 9:57:13 GMT -5
I would be very careful about accepting this story has factual.
Creed Taylor. the man who supposedly relayed this account participated in more key historical events then probably any other Texan of his era, however his supposed autobiography was disavowed by his family and there is absolutely no evidence that he ever met the publisher, Deshields.
An online search for Creed Taylor (after you eliminate the music references) will turn up most of the story. Taylor did meet with an author (Hunter?) who did write a biography of Taylor but was unable to get the wrok published. Years later after Taylor was dead, Hunter sold his manuscript to Deshields who after considerable embellishment and rewriting it as an autobiography and claiming that Taylor had personally told him the story Deshields published the work.
AS I understand it the Hunter manuscript with many of the Deshields' additions handwritten in, still exsists in the Deshields' papers. Taylor participated in virtually every battle of the Texas Revolution (excepting the Alamo and Goliad) fought in some of the key Indian battles with the rangers, fought in the Mexican War and was the patriarch of the Taylor clan in the famous Sutton-Taylor feud, it would be interesting to see the Hunter account published.
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