DeWitt County Historical Museum

06/01/2026

Avenger Field is in Texas

06/01/2026

05/31/2026

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05/31/2026

05/30/2026

Most people know about the Battle of San Jacinto — but few know about the terrifying weeks that came before it. 😮

In the spring of 1836, as Santa Anna's army swept across Texas, thousands of settler families fled in a desperate panic known as the Runaway Scrape. Among them was an 11-year-old girl named Dilue Rose Harris, who crossed the flooded Sabine River with her family in the chaos, watching people drown, cattle swept away, and families torn apart. She survived to tell the story — and decades later, she wrote it all down in vivid detail, giving historians one of the most powerful firsthand accounts of the Texas Revolution ever recorded. 📖

Without Dilue Rose Harris, much of what we know about the human cost of Texas independence would have been lost forever. She wasn't a general or a politician — she was a child who witnessed history and had the courage to remember it. Drop a 🤠 below if you think her story deserves to be taught in every Texas school!

05/29/2026

Most Texans have never heard of the Grass Fight — and once you do, you'll never forget it. 😄🤠

On November 26, 1835, a group of Texian volunteers spotted a Mexican pack mule train approaching San Antonio de Béxar and were convinced it was carrying silver to pay the Mexican garrison. They launched a bold ambush, fought off the es**rt, and captured the mules — only to discover the saddlebags were stuffed with nothing but grass, cut to feed the horses inside the besieged city.

The skirmish was a real military engagement: Texian forces under Erastus "Deaf" Smith and Edward Burleson clashed with Mexican troops, and men on both sides were wounded. But history remembers it for the punchline. The fighters who risked their lives that day had to ride back to camp and explain they'd captured a hay delivery.

It's one of the most human moments of the entire Texas Revolution — brave, bold, and a little bit ridiculous. Did you know about the Grass Fight? Drop a 🤠 below if this is new to you, and share this with a Texan who loves the stories history books skip!

05/29/2026

05/29/2026

Not authentic photos in every shot