Painting completed in: 2011

In March 1836, Mexican General Urrea set up headquarters at these Live Oak Trees which are now in the median of US Highway 77 just south of Refugio. Urrea's Army captured the Mission at Refugio and executed 30 Texans that were under the command of Captain Amon B. King. A week later, Lieutenant-Colonel William Ward and his Georgia Battalion of 100 men surrendered to Urrea and were sent to Goliad and, along with the captured James W. Fannin and his men, all were massacred on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836