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==Legacy==
[[File:Frederic Remington - The Mier Expedition- The Drawing of the Black Bean - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''The Mier Expedition- The Drawing of the Black Bean'', [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]]]]In 1847, during the [[Mexican–American War]], the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] occupied northeastern Mexico. Captain John E. Dusenbury, who was a white bean survivor, returned to El Rancho Salado and exhumed the remains of his comrades. He traveled with the remains on a ship to [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]], and by wagon to [[La Grange, Texas|La Grange]] in [[Fayette County, Texas]].
La Grange citizens retrieved the remains of the men killed in the [[Dawson Massacre]] from their burial site near [[Salado Creek]] in [[Bexar County]].{{cn|date=October 2021}}
The remains of both groups of men were reinterred in a ceremony attended by 1,000 people. They were buried in a large common tomb in 1848, in a cement vault on a [[Beach ridge|bluff]] which was one mile south of La Grange. The grave site is now part of a state park, the [[Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites]].
The Black Bean Episode is the subject of [[Frederic Remington]]'s painting ''The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://prv.mfah.org/twa/main.asp?target=images2&iid=67&cp=3|last=Remington|first=Frederic|title=The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean|accessdate=May 19, 2016}}</ref>
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