10-04-2006, 12:10 PM
Well, Herodotus... that’s good enough for me!! He mentions names, and gives perfectly logical explanations. Now, Otoh, I'm not sure as I said above that "I" would classify someone a "survivor" who didn’t fight on the third day. After all, in some accounts there was a messenger sent out of the Alamo with Lt. Col. William Barret Travis' last dispatches who couldn’t get back in time for the final assault; he is not usually counted as a "survivor." Whereas Susanna Dickinson, the wife of an officer and one of two dozen surviving women and children, as well as Jim Bowie's slave Sam and Lt. Col. Travis' slave Joe, all found in the Alamo after the battle by the Mexican Army and let go, are... IYGMD. But, I guess that is a case of semantics, and others are more comfortable calling the two of Herodotus’ of his three named individuals “survivors.â€
Duane C. Young, M.A.
