Sam Houston sends Deaf Smith to San Antonio to gather news of the Alamo. On the way, he meets Joe, Susanna Dickinson, and her little daughter, who tell him about the battle. Sam Houston burns the town of Gonzales and gathers his army at the "Sam Houston Oaks". He receives word that Mrs. Milsaps and her family have been overlooked. She is blind and her husband was one of the Gonzales volunteers who gave his life in the Alamo. He sends Deaf Smith to recover them. Then the army begins to move east on a route that roughly follows US 90 as far as San Felipe. This stirs a general panic and refugees flood the roads fleeing toward Louisiana in what has come to be known as the "Runaway Scrape".
Farther south, General Urrea, Mexico's ablest general by far, systematically mops up pockets of Texan resistance at Agua Dulce, Lipantitlan, and San Patricio. Near Refugio Mexican Lancers defeat a small force commanded by Lt. Col. William Ward and Amos King.
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