sentences:  On April 30 he left Maverick alone there while he returned to Alabama to get her younger sister, Elizabeth, who had been living as a boarder since her mother died the previous year.Samuel Maverick returned to San Antonio without his family in late August 1842 to argue a case before the district court.The Mexican army, under General Adrian Woll, surrounded San Antonio and captured the small number of Anglo-American men in the city.