The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation (67 page)

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Zuber, W. P. “The Escape of Rose from the Alamo.”
Texas Historical Association Quarterly
5, no. 1 (July 1901).
———. “Notes and Fragments.” Pts. 1–3.
Texas State Historical Association Quarterly
5, no. 2–6, no. 1 (October 1901–July 1902).

T
HESES AND
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Alexander, Gladys. “Social Life in Texas, 1821–1836.” Master’s thesis, East Texas State Teacher’s College, 1942.
Arpad, Joseph John. “David Crockett: An Original Legendary Eccentricity and Early American Character.” PhD Diss., Duke University, 1968.
Filizola, Umberto Daniel. “Correspondence of Santa Anna During the Texas Campaign, 1835–1836.” Master’s thesis, University of Texas, 1939.
Garver, Lois Antoinette. “The Life of Benjamin Rush Milam.” Master’s thesis, University of Texas, 1931.
Mixon, Ruby. “William Barret Travis: His Life and Letters.” Master’s thesis, University of Texas, 1930.
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U
NPUBLISHED
M
ANUSCRIPTS

Andrassy, Richard, and Clyde Hagood Jr., MD. “Amos Pollard: Chief Surgeon of the Alamo.” Pollard Vertical File, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, TX.
Baumgartner, Dorcas Huff. “History of the Alsey Silvanus Miller Homestead and Surrounding Area, 1700/1992.” Gonzales County Records Center and Archives, Gonzales, TX.
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Brierley, Ned F. “The Journal of Sergeant Santiago Rabia.” Santiago Rabia Papers, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, TX.
Choquette, Clifford J. and Marcelle R. “Ashburnham to Alamo: Amos Pollard, M.D.” Clifford J. Choquette Research Papers, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, TX.
Harrigan, Stephen. “The Last Days of David Crockett.” Unpublished manuscript.
Hatch, James. “Lest We Forget the Heroes of the Alamo.” James Hatch Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Henson, Margaret Swett. “List of Mexican Officers Killed or Captured at the Battle of San Jacinto, Plus Biographical Notes.” Unpublished manuscript.
Ivey, James E. “Mission to Fortress: An Architectural History of the Alamo.” Unpublished manuscript.
Jackson, Jack. “Week of Work at Archivo Historico of Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional, July 2000.” Lindley Papers, Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
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N
EWSPAPERS

Dallas Morning News
Gonzales Inquirer
Houston Daily Post
The Lone Star
(Washington on the Brazos)
El Mosquito Mexicano
New Orleans Bee
Niles’ Register; The Weekly Register; Niles’ National Register; Niles’ Weekly Register
San Antonio Daily Express
San Antonio Light
Telegraph and Texas Register
Western Texian
(San Antonio)

P
ERIODICALS

The Alamo Journal
Alamo Lore and Myth Organization
Journal of the Alamo Battlefield Association
The Texas Almanac

C
OLLECTIONS AND
A
RCHIVES

At the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin

Antonio López de Santa Anna Papers, Genero García Collection At the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

Samuel Erson Asbury Papers

Eugene Campbell Barker Papers

Don Carlos Barrett Papers

Bexar Archives

Robert Bruce Blake Papers

John Henry Brown Papers

Adina Amelia de Zavala Papers

Burr H. Duval Papers

W. W. Fontaine Papers

John Salmon Ford Papers

Benjamin Cromwell Franklin Papers

George Pierce Garrison Papers

Hassell Family Papers

James Hatch Papers

Mary Austin Holley Papers

James Jackson Family Papers

John H. Jenkins Reminiscences

Francis White Johnson Papers

Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers

Jonathan Hampton Kuykendall Papers

Ira Randolph Lewis Papers

Walter Lord Archive

Ruby Mixon Papers

Ben Caldwell Prather Papers

Charmion Clair Shelby Papers

Julia Lee Sinks Papers

William Barret Travis Papers

Amelia Worthington Williams Papers

William Physick Zuber Papers

At the Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Samuel Erson Asbury Papers

At the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

James DeShields Papers

At the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Library, San Jacinto Museum of History, La Porte, TX

Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers

At the Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Thomas Ricks Lindley Papers

At the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin

Harbert Davenport Collection

Contents

 

Welcome

Dedication

Map

 

Prologue

One: The Hotspur

Two: “O! He Has Gone to Texas”

Three: “The Celebrated Desperado”

Four: “The Burly Is Begun”

Five: The Army of the People

Six: The Battle of Béxar

Seven: “A Mere Corral and Nothing More”

Eight: The Napoleon of the West

Nine: The Backwoodsman

Ten: The Road to Béxar

Eleven: Circunvalado

Twelve: “I Am Besieged”

Thirteen: “This Time You May See Some Blood”

Fourteen: “Devlish Dark”

Fifteen: “His Excellency Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty”

Sixteen: “That Terrible Bugle Call of Death”

Seventeen: The Bleeding Country

Eighteen: “The Marrow Bone of Texas”

Nineteen: Last Rites

Afterword: Moses Rose and the Line

Photos

 

Acknowledgments

 

About the Author

 

Also by James Donovan

 

Appendix One: Mexican Army of Operations Principal Officers

 

Appendix Two: Alamo Defenders

 

Notes

 

Bibliography

 

Copyright

Copyright

 

Copyright © 2012 by James Donovan

Cover design by Julianna Lee; cover art,
The Siege of the Alamo
, © 2004 Howard David Johnson. Cover copyright © 2012 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Endpaper illustraton by Marty Brazil

Maps by Jeffrey L. Ward

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Table of Contents

Welcome

Dedication

Map

Prologue

One: The Hotspur

Two: “O! He Has Gone to Texas”

Three: “The Celebrated Desperado”

Four: “The Burly Is Begun”

Five: The Army of the People

Six: The Battle of Béxar

Seven: “A Mere Corral and Nothing More”

Eight: The Napoleon of the West

Nine: The Backwoodsman

Ten: The Road to Béxar

Eleven: Circunvalado

Twelve: “I Am Besieged”

Thirteen: “This Time You May See Some Blood”

Fourteen: “Devlish Dark”

Fifteen: “His Excellency Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty”

Sixteen: “That Terrible Bugle Call of Death”

Seventeen: The Bleeding Country

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