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About
a mile from the site of the Alamo
and Pompeo Copinni’s grand cenotaph,
is a modest plot in one of the old San Antonio city cemeteries. Only a thick chain
and a recently erected historical marker delineates the plot from nearby civilian
tombstones.
There are several accounts of what happened immediately
after the Alamo fell. Since victors
usually write the history, Mexican historians have their take (the official but
widely-believed-to-be-inflated report sent to Mexico City by Santa Anna).
Historians in the United States seem a little more concerned with what happened
to the men who were taken prisoner that morning, or indeed, if there were any
prisoners.
All accounts say that the bodies were burned and the site
of Copinni’s cenotaph is a logical place for the pyre to have been.
In
Lone Star, historian T.R. Fehrenbach stated: “The charred remains of the Alamo
dead were dumped in a common grave. Its location went unrecorded and was never
found.”
The story of this tiny 10 X 10 plot, surely the least-frequented
site in the whole Alamo epic,
is best told by the text on the historical marker: |
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Lost Burial place of the Alamo Defenders marker
Photo courtesy Sarah
Reveley , 2007 |
Captain R.A. Gillespe monument
Photo courtesy Sarah
Reveley , 2007 |
Captain Samuel H. Walker monument
Photo courtesy Sarah
Reveley , 2007 | |
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