"Here is food for you.
Eat, and I will take you to the general." They offered him Mexican food, but he had no appetite, and he ate little.

He stretched and tensed his limbs in order to restore the full flood of circulation, and announced that he was ready.

Urrea led the way, and Ned followed with a guard of four men about him.
The boy had eyes and ears for everything around him, but he looked most toward the Alamo.

He could not, at the distance, recognize the figures on the wall, but all those men were his friends, and his eyes filled with tears at their desperate case.

Out here with the Mexicans, where he could see all their overwhelming force and their extensive preparations, the chances of the Texans looked worse than they did inside the Alamo.
They entered the town and passed through the same streets, along which Ned had advanced with the conquering army of the Texans a few months before.