One-of-a-kind map from Battle at Goliad to be offered at Heritage Auctions
Fort Defiance: 1836 Joseph Chadwick Map of Col. James Fannin's Defenses at the Historic Site of the Battle of Goliad.
DALLAS, TX
.- The only known map of Col. James Fannin's troops at the Battle of Goliad and a pair of Delft tobacco jars given to Franklin Delano Roosevelt could bring $100,000 each in Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political Auction Feb. 27-28.
One of the earliest and most important contemporary printed records of the Texas Revolution, unseen since 1966, also could reach six figures. Fort Defiance: 1836 Joseph Chadwick Map of Col. James Fannin's Defenses at the Historic Site of the Battle of Goliad (estimate: $100,000+) was drawn by Fannin's adjutant, Joseph Chadwick and sent to Chadwick's mother shortly before the pair died. The story of the Texas Revolution became the stuff of legend, and the tragic massacre of Col. Fannin and some 400 of his men at Goliad was, along with the fall of the Alamo, one of the seminal events which rallied furious Texians and inspired them in their rout of General Santa Anna's army at San Jacinto. The map, published in 1836 by A. E. Baker in New York, remained in the hands of the Chadwick family for generations and was largely unknown to scholars. Its sole public appearance came in 1966, when the family allowed the original hand-drawn map and the published version offered here to be pictured in an American Heritage Magazine article discussing the relationship with his friend and mentor, Western artist George Catlin. The printed map left the family's possession at some later date; the whereabouts of the original hand-drawn map are unknown.