Reading of it in a history book is nothing like finding it in an old newspaper.... I didn't put up the list of martyrs but I do have them.. -----Original Message----- From: Mary Claunch Lane <marylane@1starnet.com> To: KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com <KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 11:32 PM Subject: Re: CONFIRMED >Betty >Being a "Texan", I thoroughly enjoyed the story about the Alamo. It is >amazing how it made the papers up north. Thanks for that article. > >Mary Lane >-----Original Message----- >From: Betty Sellers <kyseeker@comsource.net> >To: KYCHRIST-L <KYCHRIST-L@rootsweb.com> >Cc: LBL-L@rootsweb.com <LBL-L@rootsweb.com>; Henderson Co. List ><KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 7:15 PM >Subject: CONFIRMED > > >> >>April 16, 1836 >> >>Hopkinsville >> >>THE BAD NEWS CONFIRMED >>The following letter from our fellow citizen has been received by a >>gentlemen of this place, who has politely handed it for publication. Other >>letters have likewise been received, all confirming the news. >> >>Dear Sir: >> >>The unpleasant intelligence has just reached this place, by express, from >>the commander in chief, on the western frontier, that a renewed attack was >>made, on Sunday morning, the 6th inst., led by santa Ana in person that >>pprevious to the attack, the Mexican cavalry formed a circle around the >city >>to prevent the escape of any person -- that the infantry made an attack >>simultaneously on the four sides of the alamo, which was carried by assault >>at sunrise -- that the resistance of the garrison was desperate, and the >>loss very great on the part of the Mexican infantry. >> >>Every man in the Alamo died fighting, except seven, who, when the place was >>carried, laid down their arms and cried out for "quarters and Santa Ana" >but >>were immediately put to death by his orders. Col. Travis, the commandant, >>committed suicide as soon as he lost all hope -- he was a proscribed man by >>the Mexican government -- a price had been set on his head, and he was >>determined not to be taken alive. >> >>Colonel Bowie, who was very ill in bed, also put an end to his existence. >>The bodies of the Americans were burned as rebels, says the dispatch, and >>the blood-red banner of extermination now waves in undisputed possession of >>San Antonio. >> >>Alas, poor Crockett! He was among them! You cannot conceive the state of >>feeling existing here -- it is electric - volcanis. The siege of San >>Antonio, last fall, was a frolic, but you may depend there is now to be war >>in earnest. Santa ana comes himself, and will make it a serious business. >>The people of the colonies expected him in May, and Napoleon-like, he is in >>the midst of them in February. >> >>I have no time to add more. >> >>Yours >>George C. Childers. >> Betty Sellers >> >> >> >> > > > >