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A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo
cause of insufficient proof of heirship, and because of a compli-
cation due to the fact that there were several George Washing-
ton Andersons in the Texas army in 1836, and the Land Board
could not determine whether the claims made by the Georgia
people were valid. It is absolutely clear that two George Wash-
ington Andersons fought at the battle of San Jacinto (see
Milam, 1309, and San Patricio, 97), and if there were a George
Washington Anderson who died at the Alamo, he was the third
man by that name in the Texan army in 1836. After 1860 the
people in Georgia did not press their claims-why they did not
could not be ascertained-and so no lands were granted to them.
These findings, however, leave a probability that this name
may belong on the Alamo roll. In my opinion this probability
is strengthened by another document, Muster Rolls. p. 25
("Breece's Company before Bexar and what became of it").
On this roll the Quartermaster sergeant is named George
Andrews, and he is listed as "died at the Alamo." Since it is
a proved fact that the majority of Breece's men were Alamo
victims, I verified this entire roll to test its accuracy, and found
it to be unusually correct for a muster roll document. I found
land certificates or other documents concerning all the names
on the roll, except for John Spratt, George Andrews, and
Kedison. Only a few errors had been made in the
report of what had become of these men. One variant that I
am reasonably sure of which occurs in this roll is that of the
name James Dickens for that of James Dimpkins. This leads
me to suspect that the George Andrews of the roll should be
George Anderson. In view of the fact that so many of the
early lists included the name of Anderson as the quartermaster,
together with the above stated facts, I have been forced to the
tentative opinion that one George Washington Anderson did die
at the Alamo, but I have no conclusive proof of the fact, so place
the name on the list of probable victims.
Burnell. This name is found on Muster Rolls, p.
2, and on every list of Alamo victims-except my own-that
has ever been made. I have made a most painstaking search
among the Land Office documents and all other available mate-
rials, but have found no record of a Burnell who died at the
Alamo. Some lists record the name "John Burnell," others as287
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Texas State Historical Association & Barker, Eugene C. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, July 1933 - April, 1934, periodical, 1934; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101094/m1/312/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.