Remembering Goliad

When the column was formed, the group marched out to re-enact one of the three mass murders that took place 180 years ago.

Followed by a handful of Mexican Cavalry, a few wives, and the 21st Century, and watched by a handful of re-enactors on the parapets,

the column marched along the road that runs behind the Presidio about half-a-mile or so to an open field near the San Antonio River. (This may be one of the fields where the original massacre took place; I’m not certain. During the original event, three columns were marched out in different directions. I’ve read that the Texians were all shot on the side of the road, but roads change.)

The column halted just past a modern crossroads and most of the 21st Century fanned out to the right to see what was going on. This gentleman, playing a Mexican cavalryman, came over to tell us that the column had just stopped and would be moving out shortly, and asked that no one try to get up alongside it. Give whoever was running this show credit, they were safety-conscious to a fault. On the other hand a mob of civilians coming up behind a small troop of horses IS a recipe for a bunch of panicked animals and a world of hurt….

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