Remember Goliad: Palm Sunday of Sorrow
The Goliad Massacre and the Battle of Coleto Creek, 190 Years On Imagine the cold gray dawn of Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836. Nearly 400 Texian prisoners—many still nursing wounds from battle—marched out of Presidio La Bahía in three columns, believing they were being paroled, exchanged, or sent home. The air was crisp, the grass wet with dew. Then, a half-mile from the fort, the guards halted. Commands rang out in Spanish. Muskets rose. In an instant, the prairie erupted in gunfire, smoke, and screams. This is the story of the Goliad Massacre — the darkest chapter of the Texas Revolution,…