Goliad massacre: Difference between revisions

The Goliad massacre contributed to the frenzy of the [[Runaway Scrape]].{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} After the executions, the Texians' bodies were piled and burned.<ref name="Long286">Long (1990), p. 286.</ref> Their charred remains were left in the open, unburied, and exposed to vultures and coyotes.<ref name="Long286" /> Nearly one month later, word reached La Bahia (Goliad) that Santa Anna had been defeated and had surrendered while trying to flee at the [[Battle of San Jacinto]].<ref>Long, (1990), pp. 309–318.</ref> General [[Thomas Jefferson Rusk|Thomas J. Rusk]] found the remains of the massacre victims in June 1836 and gave orders for a formal military funeral. The remains were interred at a location southeast of the Presidio la Bahia. This has since been preserved and designated as the [[Goliad State Park and Historic Site|Fannin Memorial Monument]]. The location of the gravesite was forgotten until years later, when human bone fragments were discovered by a group of boys.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/goliadmassacre.htm |title=Massacre at Goliad |website=www.tamu.edu |access-date=March 29, 2016 |archive-date=May 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510125405/http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/goliadmassacre.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The massacre is commemorated in [[Walt Whitman]]'s poem ''[[Song of Myself]]'', section 34. This is featured in his collected poems titled ''[[Leaves of Grass]]''.<ref name="Whitman">{{cite book |last=Whitman |first=Walt |author-link=Walt Whitman |year=1860 |title=Leaves of Grass |title-link=Leaves of Grass |location=[[Boston]] |publisher=[[Thayer & Eldridge]]}}</ref> In 1939, the [[Goliad State Park and Historic Site|Fannin Memorial Monument]] by [[Raoul Josset]] was erected at the gravesite. It features an [[Art Deco|art deco]] [[relief]] sculpture and the names of the men who were killed.<ref name="TXPWGoliad">{{cite web |title=Goliad State Park & Historic Site Goliad Area Historic Sites – Texas Parks & Wildlife Department |url=https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/goliad/goliad-area-historic-sites |website=tpwd.texas.gov |access-date=March 7, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>