Capture By General Adrian Woll
On September 11, 1842, as a member of Captain John C. Hays's company of volunteers, Neighbors was in San Antonio attending court, when General Adrian Woll made his invasion of Texas and captured the city. Along with approximately forty other individuals, including the officers of the court, he was forcibly marched to Mexico, where he was subsequently imprisoned.
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