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He listed the survivors as five women, one Mexican soldier and one slave. Almonte did not record names, and his count was based solely on who was there during the final assault. [15] Santa Anna reported to Mexico's Secretary of War Tornel that Texian fatalities exceeded 600. Historians Jack Jackson and John Wheat attributed that high figure to ...
Name Status in the Alamo Birth–Death Notes James L. Allen: Soldier: 1815–1901: Allen left the Alamo on March 5. He was the last courier to leave. [22] Maria Andrea Castanon Villanueva: Civilian noncombatant 1803–1899 Some doubt on her presence at the Alamo. [23] Horace Alsbury: Soldier 1805–1847
March 24, 1900: Accused of murder: Cotton killed by a white mob; O'Grady Killed by African-American mob [213] O'Grady, Brandt: White Lee, William: 29: African American: Hinton: Summers: West Virginia: May 11, 1900: Assault on a white woman [214] Pete, Dago: African American: Tutwiler: Tallahatchie: Mississippi: June 1900: Assaulted colored woman
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.
One of the last survivors of the Battle of the Alamo Maria Andrea Castanon Villanueva (December 1, c. 1785 or 1803 – February 10, 1899), also known as Señora Candelaria , was an American Tejano woman known to be one of the last survivors of the Battle of the Alamo .
Davy Crockett (1786–1836), frontiersman and U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, died at Alamo; Almaron Dickinson (1800–1836), Texian soldier, died at Alamo; James Fannin (c. 1804–1836), key figure during Texas Revolution; Thomas Green (1814–1864), artillery officer at San Jacinto, brigadier general in Confederate Army
Joe also reported this, claiming the man's name was Warner. However, no Warner is listed as being at the Alamo. The most similar name is Henry Warnell, who departed the Alamo as a courier, probably on February 28, 1836, and died in Port Lavaca, Texas, of wounds received either during the battle or his escape in June 1836. [26] [27]
Completed in 1931, it attempted to positively identify all of the Texians who died during the battle. Her list was used to choose the names carved into the cenotaph memorial in 1936. [31] Several historians, including Thomas Ricks Lindley, Thomas Lloyd Miller, and Richard G. Santos, believe her list included men who had not died at the Alamo. [32]