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Below are 215 known combatants: 193 who died during the siege, 31 survivors, and one escapee who later died of his wounds. Mexican Colonel Juan Almonte, Santa Anna's aide-de-camp, recorded the Texian fatality toll as 250 in his March 6 journal entry. He listed the survivors as five women, one Mexican soldier and one slave.
José Gregorio Esparza (February 25, 1802 – March 6, 1836), also known as Gregorio Esparza, was the last Texan defender to enter the Alamo during the early days of March 1836 in the Siege of the Alamo [1] and was the only one that was not burned in the pyres. He had brought his family into the Alamo compound along with him.
George C. Kimble (alternately spelled Kimbell or Kimball, March 6, 1803 – March 6, 1836) was the commander of the Immortal 32 who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Kimble County in the hill country of Texas is named in his honor.
At the Alamo In February, 1836 Sowell volunteered again during the Siege of the Alamo . [ 7 ] Although he served in the old mission fort while the army of Santa Anna was already in the vicinity of San Antonio , he and Byrd Lockhart were sent out as couriers and foragers.
Juana Gertrudis Navarro Alsbury (1812 – July 23, 1888) was one of the few Texian survivors of the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution in 1836. As Mexican forces entered her hometown, San Antonio de Bexar, on February 23, Alsbury's cousin by marriage, James Bowie, brought her with him to the Alamo Mission so that he could protect her.
From Davy Crockett's fate to the real racial mix of soldiers "there are a lot of inaccuracies in the movie," says one historian of the famed Western, released on Oct. 24, 1960.
Pollard died in the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, probably defending the Alamo hospital. A portrait of him was done sometime before he moved to Texas. Besides William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett, he is the only Alamo defender of whom a portrait was done from life. A copy of the portrait is on display in the Alamo." [2]
The grave of Elmer E. Ellsworth, located in Hudson View Cemetery, Mechanicville, NY Photographs show Colonel Elmer Ellsworth of Field and Staff, 11th New York Infantry Regiment; Marshall House at the corner of King and Pitt Streets, Alexandria, Virginia, the scene of the assassination of Col. Ellsworth on May 24, 1861; and Lieutenant Francis Brownell of Co.