The Fall Of The Alamo

Magazine of American History, ^ | January, 1878 | Captain R. M. Potter

[CIBvet]

A BIG Thank you bump.

[Whey]

The Alamo story causes me to have a feeling that I cannot describe adequately. Pride, heartbreak, admiration, bewilderment all rolled into one feeling.

Whey

[ladtx]

A visit to the Alamo should be on the list of things to do for all Texans. Once you get past the commercialism surrounding it, it is truly a humbling experience to stand in that place.

[kimosabe31]

Bump

[texson66]

Well there is another side to the story at Fighting to the End?

[goo goo g'joob]

When horror is intensified by mystery, the sure product is romance.

dontcha just luv a well turned phrase...

[Flyer]

*PING!*

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[Sunshine Sister]

My feelings exactly. It gave me goose bumps to go there.

[joesnuffy]

From the time I was little after I had seen the Fess Parker Buddy Epson version the Alamo story captured me..I was stationed at Ft Sam back in 68 and spent a lot of time there.. it is a moving place when thinking about America and freedom and the price paid for both...

[js1138]

... not a single combatant of the last struggle from within the fort survived to tell the tale...

I'm under the impression that a number of women and children survived.

[Treebeard]

What's that sign at the entrance? "Be silent, friend. Brave men died here."

If you find a quiet place, and get away from the crowds, you can feel the weight of the place.

[ladtx]

Whether Crockett was killed in the fight or was executed later doesn't change the fact he volunteered to be there. The whims of fate on the battlefield are mysterious, he may have been wounded and captured or simply ran out of lead and powder, was overwhelmed and taken. No one really knows what the truth is.

[Sunshine Sister]

I felt it the most when we went into the chaple. We were instructed to be quiet. You can feel the presence of greatness in that building. In fact, I have goose bumps just reflecting back on that day!

[xJones]

There is a ghostly feeling to visit there. You can almost feel the presence of those brave men.

Meek: No fiercer or more heroic fight was ever seen in America or in the world.

[Sunshine Sister]

My brother said he felt the same thing when he went to the Little Big Horn. Given the difference in circumstances, I'm not so sure I would feel the same way.

[Redbob]

"... not a single combatant of the last struggle from within the fort survived to tell the tale... I'm under the impression that a number of women and children survived"

The two statements are not mutually exclusive.
In fact, Captain Potter's account specifically says that Mrs. Dickenson survived.

[Redbob]

Doesn't Ron Howard have a plan to make a movie about the Alamo?

Is there any small chance he'll get it right? Or will it be revisionist story about how we "wronged" the native inhabitants, a peace-loving people who valued Mother Earth, and who always recycled?

[Six Bells]

Great article!!

[js1138]

How are they mutually exclusive? Women and children weren't combatants. I believe more than one survived. My point is there were survivors left to tell the story.