| Acknowledgments | ix |
| Introduction: "Daring Intrepidity" | xiii |
1. | "Never Surrender" | 1 |
| Santa Anna and the Texas Campaign | 6 |
| Sam Houston's Staff Departs Washington | 10 |
2. | "Anxious for a Fight" | 18 |
| A Gathering at Gonzales Begins | 18 |
| Captain Billingsley's "Mina Volunteers" | 19 |
| Captain Hill's Washington Company | 22 |
| Captain Sherman's Kentucky Riflemen | 24 |
| Captain Seguin's Tejano Volunteers | 27 |
| Baker, McNutt and Rabb's Companies | 29 |
| Captain Bennett's Company Heads Out | 34 |
| The Alamo's Fall | 36 |
3. | Houston Takes Command | 39 |
| The Mexican Army Departs Bexar | 42 |
| Houston Arrives in Gonzales | 43 |
4. | "Flying in Terror and Agony" | 48 |
| Captain Patton's Company Organized | 52 |
| Gonzales Abandoned | 57 |
| Captain Bird's Men Join Houston | 61 |
| Last Stand at La Bahia: March 14 | 67 |
| Houston Marches Army to the Colorado | 68 |
| Captain Splane Joins | 69 |
| Navidad to the Colorado | 74 |
| The New Texas Government | 78 |
| Texas Rangers Called to Join the Army | 80 |
| From Crier's to Beason's: March 18-19 | 83 |
5. | Sparring along the Colorado | 85 |
| Karnes Takes a Prisoner | 87 |
| McIntire, Martin, and Logan's Companies | 90 |
| Captain Chance's Washington Guards | 95 |
| New Units Unite with Sherman's Division | 97 |
| Major Ben Smith's Brush with Sesma's Soldiers | 103 |
6. | Falling Back | 111 |
| Houston Calls for a Retreat | 114 |
| The Nacogdoches Volunteers | 118 |
| Sherman Joined by Forbes Battalion | 120 |
| The Palm Sunday Massacre | 128 |
7. | "Intensely Hungry, Weary and Wet" | 134 |
| North up the Brazos | 136 |
| San Felipe Is Burned | 140 |
| Arrival of Captains Kimbro and Bryant | 145 |
| Camp Moves to Groce's Landing | 147 |
| Travels of the Twin Sisters | 151 |
| Santa Anna on the Offensive | 154 |
| Fannin Survivors Reach Baker's Detachment | 157 |
| Court-Martial of Privates Scales and Garner | 158 |
8. | Camping in the Brazos Swamps | 162 |
| Prisoner Execution Spared | 164 |
| Rusk Arrives at Groce's | 167 |
| Major Smith Raises New Company | 171 |
| Santa Anna Captures a Texan | 176 |
| Baker Detachment versus the Mexican Army | 180 |
| Houston Creates Second Regiment | 183 |
| Santa Anna Pushes On | 186 |
9. | "I Will Avenge the Death of My Brave Friends" | 190 |
| Arrival of Fannin's Survivors | 194 |
| Martin's Men Abandon Fort Bend | 195 |
| Twin Sisters Reach Bernardo Plantation | 197 |
10. | "The Last Hope of Texas" | 203 |
| Movements of Santa Anna's Men | 205 |
| "You Must Fall Back" | 209 |
11. | The Road to San Jacinto | 222 |
| Houston Marches to Harrisburg | 233 |
| Old Whip and Miss Emily | 235 |
| Spies Capture Santa Anna's Mail | 237 |
12. | "Determined to Conquer or Die" | 242 |
| "Remember the Alamo" | 248 |
13. | The First Engagement | 254 |
| Supply Boat Captured | 261 |
| Sherman's "Little Squad of Heroes" | 270 |
| Into "The Hornet's Nest" | 277 |
| Houston Restrains Infantry | 280 |
14. | "Burn That Bridge" | 286 |
| Numbers, Guns and Flags | 294 |
| Blacks and Tejanos in Service at San Jacinto | 299 |
| The War Council | 301 |
| "Cut It Down and Set It on Fire" | 303 |
15. | "Dreadful Havoc" | 309 |
| "Parade Your Companies" | 310 |
| Sherman's Second Regiment Draws First Blood | 318 |
| Burleson's First Regiment Engages | 322 |
| Santa Anna's Forces Overrun | 326 |
| "I Shot Old Betsy Six Times" | 329 |
| Twin Sisters against the Golden Standard | 333 |
| A "Panic Stricken Herd": Flight of Santa Anna | 337 |
| The Halt Controversy | 338 |
16. | "It Was Nothing but a Slaughter" | 344 |
| "Colonel Forbes Done It!" | 350 |
| Pursuit to Vince's Bridge | 353 |
| Late Arrivals to the Fight | 357 |
| "Damn Your Manners" | 360 |
| "The Hand of Providence Was with Us" | 364 |
17. | Catching "The Old Fox" | 369 |
| McNutt's Men Arrive | 374 |
| "A Big Haul": Santa Anna Captured | 375 |
| Interrogation | 381 |
18. | The Spoils of War | 387 |
| The Booty Auction: April 26 | 394 |
| Burnet Is Notified | 400 |
| The Forbes Trial | 401 |
| Afterword | 413 |
| Forbes v. Labadie Lawsuit | 413 |
| Miss Emily and the "Yellow Rose" Controversy | 415 |
| Who Shot Sam Houston? | 417 |
| Flags of the San Jacinto Campaign | 417 |
| How Many Texans Fought? | 418 |
| Post-San Jacinto Careers | 420 |
| The San Jacinto Monument and Museum | 425 |
| Appendixes | |
A. | Texian Casualties of the San Jacinto Campaign | 429 |
B. | Mexican Officers Killed and Captured at the Battle of San Jacinto | 433 |
C. | Roster of Texans Present at the Battle of San Jacinto | 435 |
D. | Roster of Texans Stationed at Texas Army Camp near Harrisburg | 453 |
E. | Other Companies of the San Jacinto Campaign | 459 |
| Notes | 463 |
| Bibliography | 495 |
| Index | 501 |