Deaf Smith

The story

500 yards northeast site of the battlefied where Erastus (Deaf) Smith, Captain of scouts of the Republic of Texas, and 21 Texans on March 17, 1837, had an encounter with a superior force of Mexican cavalry from the Laredo Garrison. Two of Smith's men were wounded, ten Mexicans killend and ten wounded. As there was a considerable Mexican force at Laredo the Texans returned to San Antonio.