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Contains over one hundred descriptions of the Battle of the Alamo by people who were witnesses or who claimed to have witnessed the event. These accounts are the basis for all of the histories, traditions, myths, and legends of this famous battle. Many are conflicting, some are highly suspect as to authenticity, but all are intriguing.
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Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Siege, 1836--Personal narratives.
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1996
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F390.G85 1996eb
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976.4/351
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Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Siege, 1836--Personal narratives.
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Eyewitness to the Alamo
Bill Groneman
Republic of Texas Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Groneman, Bill. Eyewitness to the Alamo / Bill Groneman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55622-502-4 (pbk.) 1. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)Siege, 1836Personal narratives. I. Title. F390.G85 1996 976.4'351dc20 96-4214 CIP
Copyright 1996, Bill Groneman
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Republic of Texas Press is an imprint of Wordware Publishing, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Wordware Publishing, Inc.
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Contents
Acknowledgements,
vi
Introduction,
vii
Chapter One The Siege,
1
Chapter Two 1836,
19
Chapter Three 19th Century,
43
Chapter Four 20th Century,
129
Chapter Five The Alamo,
219
Notes,
229
Sources,
243
Index,
255
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For my wife Kelly and my daughter Katie
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The task was a laborious one because eyewitnesses of the same occurrence gave different accounts of them as they remembered, or were interested in the actions of one side or the other. Thucydides
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank and acknowledge all of the following: My wife Kelly, son Billy, daughter Katie, and Dalmatians Dotty and Glennis. My friends at Republic of Texas Press, Russell and Dianne Stultz, Mary Goldman, Carol Parks and the rest of the fine staff. The staff of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo who are always more than helpful, Director Cathy Herpich, Martha Utterback, Jeannette Phinney, Warren Stricker, Jana Bomersbach, Rusty Gamez, Linda Edwards, and Sally Koch. Those who provided help, encouragement, inspiration, advice, illustrations, or examples of their own work: Chris Anderson; John Anderson of the Texas State Archives; Dorothy Black, Alamo Chapel Hostess; David C. Bowser; Bill and Debbie Chemerka; Ann Fears Crawford; Ed Dubravsky; Ray Esparza; Jack and Yetta Fauntleroy; Don and Terry Griffiths; Dora Guerra of the University of Texas; Angela Hamrick; Dr. Todd Harburn; Cyde Hubbard; Paul Andrew Hutton Ph.D., Tom Lindley; Walter Lord; Timothy M. Matovina Ph.D.; Tom Munnerlyn of State House Press; Joe Musso; Ma and Mikey Novak; Dorothy Perez; Etna Scott; Tom Shelton of the Institute of Texan Cultures; Bob Strong; Rod and Jean Timanus; Terry Todish; Tim Todish; Tonia J. Wood of the Texas State Archives; Gary Zaboly; the staff of the Malverne Public Library; and the Alamo Society.
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Introduction
The siege and Battle of the Alamo took place from February 23 to March 6, 1836. Today it is a well-remembered and much celebrated event, but immediately following the battle on that bloody Sunday morning many years ago it was not quite so. There were not many people anxious to or in a position to actually remember the Alamo. Virtually all of the combatants on the Texan side of the conflict had been killed. There were a handful of noncombatant survivors within the fort and a greater number of combatant survivors among the victorious Mexican soldiers, but at the time no attempt was made to piece the story together through their testimony. There was no official inquest into the battle since both sides were waging war and had more pressing matters to attend to. To the survivors the siege and Battle of the Alamo was a violent, bloody tragedy, not the glorious historical event it is seen as today. It is likely that they would have preferred to put the traumatic details of the battle behind them.
Still, eyewitness or alleged eyewitness accounts of the siege and battle have emerged over the years. They come from the small group of survivors within the Alamo, Mexican soldiers, civilian witnesses, and couriers who had been sent out before the final battle. These accounts have been set down in the form of official correspondence, letters, memoirs, alleged diaries and journals, oral family tradition, books, newspaper articles, and even in the form of communications from the commanders of each side during the siege. These are the people to whom the saying "Remember the Alamo" truly applies. When we remember the Alamo today it is through the words and writings of later historians and researchers who have interpreted, reinterpreted, and sometimes heavily edited the accounts of the participants or alleged participants.
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