Subject: Alamo Movies & Brackettville
Date: 08/22/98
From: Mike Boldtmichaelalamo@eudoramail.com
This is about the best site on the Alamo there is. I hope you keep updatingand adding new departments. It's nice to know that there is a web sitewith all the latest information about the Battle of the Alamo. On a personalnote I would like to see more on the films , and maybe some updates onthe Brackettville sale.
And to my old friend Kevin Young, keep up the good work. I haven't spokento you in a while but it's good to see your alive and kickin in Texas.
Mike Boldt
Rotterdam hotelsThanks for your comments.I earlier toyed with the idea of includinga section called "The Alamo in Popular Culture," that would, amongother things, deal with the movies and television. However, keeping upwith the Alamo's early history is a daunting task at best. Our prioritiesright now are to enlarge the section on the 1836 battle and to developthe site further for use by teachers.
If you're interested in Alamo Pop Culture, be sure to visit The Crockett Craze Homepage.It's maintained by long-time Alamo Society member Howard Bender.
I personally don't know what's going on at Brackettville, but Iknow there are those in our midst that do.I'll see what I can find outand get back to you.
Randell Tarin
Subject: Santa Anna's Bodyguards
Date: September 9, 1998
From: Jeff Pendleton
Did Santa Anna have regular bodyguards or an entourage, a few men speciallytrained or highly trusted to protect him?
Jeff Pendleton
Gmunden cheap hotelsThis is the only reference to his personal escort, although we canassume that he used mounted troops as an escort for most of the campaign.The selection of camp guards, even for his personal tent area, would dependon whatever regiment or battalion was on guard detail on a particular evening.
During the Mexican War, Santa Anna did have a personally raisedescort: the Guard of the Supreme, who also served as combat troops.
Subject: Isaac Millsaps
Date: 10/13/98
From: Dina Milsaps DeMeritt demeritt@worldnet.att.net
My great, great, great Grand-Father Isaac Millsaps fought in the Alamo. I would like to find out more information about him. Can anyone helpme? Any kind of information would be wonderful.
Thank You
Dina Milsaps DeMeritt
Alojamiento en motel MamaiaDeWitt Colonist Isaac Millsaps was a member of the heroic GonzalesRelief Force who were the only Texians to timely respond to the appealfrom Alamo Commander Travis and his men for aid to the besieged Alamo. The force fought their way into the fortress through surrounding Mexicancentralist lines and, except for the exit of a few last minute couriers,died there with members of the garrison.
You will find his biography on Texian Web site, Sonsof DeWitt Colony Texas with links to stories of his close associates,the story of how blind wife Mary and children were almost forgotten inthe evacuation of Gonzales, and the sad story of how blind widow Mary losther inheritance due to inability to pay taxes. A touching last lettersigned by Isaac while in the Alamo fortress is generally thoughtto be a fake (see Millsap'sLetter and links).
Wallace E. McKeehan, Consulting Editor
Alamo de Parras
Subject: Long Barrack's Arcade
From: Ron D'AmbrosiDeguell0@aol.com
Date: 10/21/98
Were the two-story Long Barracks arcaded with walkways during the 1836battle or were they just plainly rectangular as drawn in Walter Lord'sATime To Stand and Tim and Terry Todish's Alamo Sourcebook 1836?
Also, were the adobe Long Barrack walls arched? In Adina de Zavala'sHistoryand Legends of the Alamo and Other Missions in and around San Antonioand John Man's & Tim Newark's Battlefields: Then & Now havethe Long Barracks's adobe walls arched. Also Ray Sorrels'ERROR MSGThe Alamoin American History, a diorama of the Long Barracks has adobe arches/arcades.Is this historically accurate?
Ron D'Ambrosi
Brooklyn, New York
The arcaded walkway did not appear until Hugo Grenet, a French-bornSan Antonio merchant, took over the buildings by 1877 and converted theminto a mercantile store. It was he that erected the two-story woodenarcades with the walkways. These additions were not well thoughtof by the general public who considered them to be hideous alterations.
