At Hacienda Salado, 80 miles south of Saltillo, Coahuila, on March 25, 1843, 176 recaptured Texans who had escaped from the hacienda on February 11, 1843, were told that on the order of Santa Anna, one-tenth of them would be executed. They drew beans from a pot containing 159 white beans and seventeen black beans. The men who drew black beans were given an opportunity to write home and then, about sunset, were shot. The seventeen men who drew black beans were John L. Cash, Thomas L. Jones, Joseph N.M. Thompson, James D. Cocke, Patrick Maher, James N. Torrey, Robert Holmes Dunham, James Masterson Ogden, James Turnbull, William Mosby Eastland, Christopher Roberts, Henry Whalen, Edward E. Este, William Rowan, Martin Carroll Wing, Robert H. Harris, and James L. Shepherd. During the Mexican War, with the permission of Major Walter P. Lane, John Dusenbury recovered the remains of sixteen of them and returned them here for interment on September 18, 1848. James L. Shepherd had only been wounded, faked death, and escaped that night, but three days later he was recognized in Saltillo and was shot in the street; his remains were never recovered.