When did Austin lead settlers into Texas 1820ish? And the Battle of the Alamo was 1836? Seems to me no one fighting at the Alamo had been in Texas very long accept the Spanish that sided with Texas against Mexico.
Like I said,the Kentuckians may have been Texans in their hearts, but they were Kentuckians who had families back home and planned on returning if they did not die. So they would have died Kentuckians even if they lived to be 100.
My ancestors fought for freedom and knew that they would be staying when it was over, and eventually they died as Texans in Texas long after the war was won.
If the men from Kentucky had survived the war, they all planned on returning to Kentucky where their families were still living.
However, because they died at the ALamo, they became Texans in their death, because when the war was over the victorious Texans, made them Texans posthumously.
However, many AMERICAN men fought and died in Europe during both WWs, does that make them British, French, or anything other than American?