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

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by James Donovan


  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 Unpublished manuscript.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 Unpublished manuscript.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 Unpublished manuscript.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.

  Kailbourn, Tom. “Concordance Comparing Troop Assignments per Column in Alamo Assault.” Unpublished manuscript.

  Kuykendall, Jonathan Hampton. “Sketches of Early Texans.” Kuykendall Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

  Lindley, Thomas Ricks. “True as Steel: Character and Destiny in the Texas Revolution.” Lindley Papers, Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.

  Shelby, Charmion. “Notes on the Mexican Army of Operations in Texas, 1835–1836.” Charmion Shelby Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

  Walker, R. H., Jr. “Early Life in Gonzales.” Vertical Files, Gonzales County Records Center and Archives, Gonzales, TX.

  Wilkes, Chester. “The Andrew Kent Home.” Unpublished manuscript.

  ———. “Mary Ann Kent Byas Chambers Morris.” Unpublished manuscript.

  Young, Kevin R. “Understanding the Mexican Army.” Unpublished manuscript.

  NEWSPAPERS

  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)

  PERIODICALS

  The Alamo Journal

  Alamo Lore and Myth Organization

  Journal of the Alamo Battlefield Association

  The Texas Almanac

  COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES

  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<
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  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

 

 

 


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