Enter to win a copy of
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon:
Women Soldiers and Patriots of the Western Frontier.
A slim shadow darted toward the old church at the ruined fortress of Goliad. The smell of smoke stained the night air as the figure picked a careful path through the rubble inside the fortress walls. Moonlight starkly displayed the damage caused by the retreating forces of Col. James Fannin’s command. Hundreds of Fannin’s men now lay on the hard ground, prisoners of Gen. Jose de Urrea, one of Supreme Commandment Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s best commanders.
Pausing in a dark corner, Francita Alavez gazed toward the southwest gate and the dull gleam of a cannon positioned to fire on anyone who might attempt a rescue of the American. She shivered in the warm night as the knowledge of their fate bowed her shoulders. She knew what the captives did not. They believed they would be returned to the United States as prisoners of war. Francita had seen the order sent by Santa Anna to execute them all.
To learn more about Francita Alavez and other women soldiers and patriots of the Western Frontier read She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.
