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 > > > >