William James Trimble was captured after the Massacre and marched to Mexico with the San Antonio prisoners by the Mexican troops under General Woll's Command. They tied his hands behind him and bound them together in pairs. Survivor of Dawson Creek now prisoner at the Castle of San Juan de Uloa, at Vera Cruz. The unwounded arrived on December 22, 1842. The first four days after their arrival they were allowed to go about the castle. On the fifth day they were chained in pairs and the eighth or the tenth day the prisoners were put to work, packing sand stone, lime, ect. into the castle. Their food consisted of poor beef, one day in three, beans, potatoes, rice and b read, badly cooked. The rations always small, not being sufficent for a hearty man. At night they were locked up, in the morning the doors were opened. At nine o'clock paraded and counted and put to work immediatly afterwards. William died December 16, 1843 of "Vomito" and both he and Norman Woods were burried in the prison moat. There was a Colonel Mayfield and a Yoakum who wrote about the battle - coukd be family, from Sullivan County, Indiana.