The massive number of Texian prisoner-of-war casualties throughout the Goliad Campaign led to Goliad being called a "massacre" by Texian forces and fueled the frenzy of the Runaway Scrape.

After the executions, the Texians' bodies were piled and burned.
Their charred remains were left in the open, unburied, and exposed to vultures and coyotes.
Nearly one month later, word reached La Bahia (Goliad) that Santa Anna had been defeated and surrendered while trying to flee at the Battle of San Jacinto.

General Thomas J. Rusk found the remains of the massacre victims in June 1836 and gave orders for a formal military funeral.
The remains were interred at the location southeast of the Presidio la Bahia where the Fannin Memorial Monument now stands.
The whereabouts of the gravesite was forgotten until years later when human bone fragments were discovered by a group of boys.

The massacre is commemorated in Walt Whitman's poem Song of Myself, section 34, which features in his collected poems titled Leaves of Grass.

In 1939, the Fannin Memorial Monument by Raoul Josset was erected at the gravesite.
It features an art deco relief sculpture and the names of the men who were slain.
The massive number of Texian prisoner-of-war casualties throughout the Goliad Campaign led to Goliad being called a "massacre" by Texian forces and fueled the frenzy of the Runaway Scrape.
After the executions, the Texians' bodies were piled and burned. Their charred remains were left in the open, unburied, and exposed to vultures and coyotes. Nearly one month later, word reached La Bahia (Goliad) that Santa Anna had been defeated and surrendered while trying to flee at the Battle of San Jacinto.
General Thomas J. Rusk found the remains of the massacre victims in June 1836 and gave orders for a formal military funeral. The remains were interred at the location southeast of the Presidio la Bahia where the Fannin Memorial Monument now stands. The whereabouts of the gravesite was forgotten until years later when human bone fragments were discovered by a group of boys.
The massacre is commemorated in Walt Whitman's poem Song of Myself, section 34, which features in his collected poems titled Leaves of Grass. 
In 1939, the Fannin Memorial Monument by Raoul Josset was erected at the gravesite. It features an art deco relief sculpture and the names of the men who were slain.
Goliad massacre