While Texans were fighting the final battle for their independence on Apr. 21, 1836, a survivor of the Goliad Massacre was spending his twenty-first day on the run.
Twenty-year-old John Crittenden Duval and his older brother Burr were members of the large Kentucky contingent that answered the Texans’ appeal in the early stage of the Revolution. When Col. James Fannin surrendered over the objections…