Commandancy of the Alamo

To the People of Texas & all Americans in the World--
Fellow Citizens and Compatriots--

I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna--I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man--The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken--I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls--I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all despatch--The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country--Victory or Death.


William Barret Travis Lt. Col. comdt.

P.S. The Lord is on our side--When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn--We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels, and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves--




Travis





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The men who fell at the Alamo - March 6, 1836

John (a negro) Juan Abamillo -San Antonio
R. Allen
Mills DeForrest Andross -Vermont, San Patricio, Texas
Micajah Autry -North Carolina, Tennessee
Juan A. Badillo -San Antonio
Peter James Bailey -Kentucky, Arkansas
Isaac G. Baker -Arkansas, Gonzales, Texas
Willima Charles M. Baker -Missouri, Mississippi
John J. Ballentine -Bastrop, Texas
Richard W. Ballantine -Scotland, Alabama
John J. Baugh -Virginia
Joseph Bayliss -Tennessee
John Blair -Tennessee
Samuel B. Blair -Tennessee
William Blazeby -England, New York
James Butler Bonham -South Carolina, Alabama
Daniel Bourne -England
James Bowie -Tennessee, Louisiana
Jesse B. Bowman -Red River, Texas
George Brown -England
James Brown -Pennsylvania
Robert Brown
James Buchanan -Alabama
Samuel E. Burns -Ireland, Louisiana
George D. Butler -Missouri
Robert Campbell -Tennessee
John Cane -Pennsylvania
Willima R. Carey -Virginia (or Maryland)
Charles Henry Clark -Missouri
M. B. Clark -Nacagdoches, Texas
Daniel William Cloud -Kentucky, Arkansas
Robert E. Cochran -New Jersey
George Washington Cottle -Tennessee (or Missouri)
Henry Courtman -Germany
Lemuel Crawford -South Carolina
David Crockett -Tennessee
Robert Crossman -Massachusetts, Louisiana
David P. Cummings -Pennsylvania
Robert Cunningham -New York, Indiana
Jacob C. Darst -Kentucky, Missouri
Freeman H.K. Day -Gonzales, Texas
Jerry C. Day -Missouri
Squire Daymon -Tennessee
William Dearduff -Tennessee
Stephen Denison -Ireland, Kentucky
Charles Despallier -Louisiana
Almeron Dickinson -Pennsylvania, Tennessee
John H. Dillard -Tennessee
James R. Dimpkins -England
Lewis Duel -New York
Andrew Duvalt -Ireland
Carlos Espalier -San Antonio, Texas
Gregorio Esparza -San Antonio, Texas
Robert Evans -Ireland, New York
Samuel B. Evans -Kentucky
James L. Ewing -Tennessee
William Fishbaugh -Gonzales, Texas
John Flanders -Massachusetts
Dolphin Ward Floyd -North Carolina
John Hubbard Forsyth -New York
Antonio Fuentes -San Antonio, Texas
Galba Fuqua -Gonzales, Texas
William H. Furtleroy -Kentucky, Arkansas
William Garnett -Virginia
James W. Garrand -Louisiana
James Girard Garrett -Tennessee
John E. Garvin -Gonzales, Texas
John E. Gaston -Kentucky
James George -Gonzales, Texas
John Camp Goodrich -Tennessee
Albert Calvin Grimes -Georgia
James C. Gwynne -England, Mississippi
James Hannum -Refugio, Texas
John Harris -Kentucky
Andrew Jackson Harrison
William B. Harrison -Ohio
Joesph M. Hawkins -Ireland, Louisiana
John M. Hays -Tennessee
Charles M. Heiskell -Tennessee
Thomas Hendricks
Patrick Henry Herndon -Virginia
William D. Hersee -New York
Tapley Holland -Grimes County, Texas
Samuel Holloway -Pennsylvania
William D. Howell -Massachusetts
William Daniel Jackson -Ireland, Kentucky
Thomas Jackson -Kentucky
Green B. Jameson -Kentucky
Gordon C. Jennings -Missouri
Lewis Johnson -Wales
William Johnson -Pennsylvania
John Jones -New York
Johnnie Kellog -Gonzales, Texas
James Kenny -Virginia
Andrew Kent -Kentucky
Joseph Kerr -Louisiana
George C. Kimball -New York
William P. King -Gonzales, Texas
William Irvine Lewis -Pennsylvania
William J. Lightfoot -Virginia
Jonathan L. Lindley -Illinois
William Linn -Massachusetts
José Toribio Losoya *
George Washinton Main -Virginia
William T. Malone -Georgia
William Marshall -Tennessee, Arkansas
Albert Martin -Tennessee
Edward McCafferty -San Patricio, Texas
Jesse McCoy -Gonzales, Texas
William McDowell -Pennsylvania
James McGee -Ireland
John McGregor -Scotland
Robert McKinney -Ireland
Eliel Melton -South Carolina
Thomas R. Miller -Virginia
William Mills -Tennessee, Arkansas
Isaac Millsaps -Mississippi
Edward F. Mitchusson -Kentucky
Edwin T. Mitchell -Georgia
Napoleon B. Mitchell
Robert B. Moore -Virginia
Willis Moore -Mississippi, Arkansas
Robert Musselman -Ohio
Andres Nava -San Antonia, Texas
George Neggan -South Carolina
Andrew M. Nelson -Tennessee
Edward Nelson -South Carolina
George Nelson -South Carolina
James Northcross -Virginia
James Nowlin -Ireland
George Pagan -Mississippi
Christopher Parker -Mississippi
William Parks -San Patricio, Texas
Richardson Perry
Amos Pollard -Massachusetss, New York
John Purdy Reynolds -Pennsylvania
Thomas H. Roberts
James Robertson -Tennessee
Isaac Robinson -Tennessee
James M. Rose -Virginia, Tennessee (nephew of President Madison)
Jackson J. Rusk -Ireland
Joesph Rutherford -Kentucky
Isaac Ryan -Louisiana
Mial Scurlock -Louisiana
Marcus L. Sewell -England
Manson Shied -Georgia
Cleland Kinlock Simmons -South Carolina
Amdrew H. Smith -Tennessee
Charles S. Smith -Maryland
Joshua G. Smith -North Carolina, Tennessee
William H. Smith -Nacogdoches, Texas
Richard Starr -England
James E. Stewart -England
Richard L. Stockton -Virginia
A. Spain Summerlin -Tennessee, Arkansas
William E. Summers -Tennessee
William D. Sutherland -Alabama
Edward Taylor -Liberty, Texas
George Taylor -Liberty, Texas
James Taylor -Liberty, Texas
William Taylor -Tennessee
B. Archer M. Thomas -Kentucky
Henry Thomas -Germany
Jesse G. Thompson -Arkansas
John W. Thomson -North Carolina, Tennessee
John M. Thurston -Pennsylvania, Kentucky
Burke Trammel -Ireland, Tennessee
William Barret Travis -South Carolina, Alabama
George W. Tumlinson -Missouri
Asa Walker -Tennessee
Jacob Walker -Nacogdoches, Texas
William B. Ward -Ireland
Henry Warnell -Arkansas
Joseph G. Washington -Tennessee
Thomas Waters -England
William Wells -Georgia
Isaac White -Kentucky
Robert White -Gonzales, Texas
Hiram J. Wlliamson -Pennsylvania
David L. Wilson -Scotland
John Wilson -Pennsylvania
Antony Wolfe -England
Claiborne Wright -North Carolina
Charles Zanco -Denmark