Notes

  1 Groneman, Bill. Eyewitness to the Alamo. Plano, Texas: Republic of Texas Press, 1996, p 79.

2 Ibid, pp 51-52.

3 Ibid, pp 49-52.

4 Groneman, Bill. Alamo Defenders, a Genealogy: the People and their Words. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1990, pp 50, 64-65, 114-115; Drake, David. "'Joe', Alamo Hero". Negro History Bulletin (April-May-June 1981), pp 34-35.

5 Groneman. Eyewitness, pp 22-23, 25-27, 163-165.

6 Drake. "'Joe'", p 34.

7 Barr, Alwyn. Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1990, p 17.

8 Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution. Lubbock, Texas: Craftsman Printers, Inc., 1986, pp 43, 256.

9 Hardin, Stephen L. Texian Iliad. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1994, p 79.

10 Chariton, Wallace O. 100 Days in Texas, the Alamo Letters. Plano, Texas: Wordware Publishing, Inc., 1990, p 46.

11 Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Muster Rolls, pp 40-42.; Wilkins, Pascal. "Illness at the Alamo". Alamo Journal (Feb. 1993), [9-14].

12 Chariton. 100 Days, pp 97-98.

13 Barr, Alwyn. Texans in Revolt, pp 13-14.

14 Groneman. Eyewitness, p 26.

15Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Muster Rolls, p 27; Groneman. Alamo Defenders, pp 34-35, 66.

16 Nofi, Albert A. The Alamo and the Texas War for Independence, September 30, 1835-April 21, 1836. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, Inc., 1992, p 131; Tinkle, Lon. 13 Days to Glory, The Siege of the Alamo. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1985, p 216; Myers, John Myers. The Alamo. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1973, p 225.

17 Lord, Walter. A Time to Stand. New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961, pp 207-208.

18 Groneman. Alamo Defenders, pp 23, 172.

19 Becerra, Francisco. A Mexican Sergeant's Recollections of the Alamo & San Jacinto. Austin, Texas: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1980, pp 37-38.