The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, July 1990 - April, 1991 Page: 71
692 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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Nufiez Account
FALL OF THE ALAMO.
One of the Besiegers Tells the
Story of the Siege
and Final Assault.
FRIGHTFUL SCENES OF CARNAGE-DEATH OF
TRAVIS AND THE "MAN IN THE FOXSKIN CAP."
How the Bodies Were Collected and
Burned-Horrible Scenes
Depicted by an Eye-Witness.
[Felix Nunez is an aged Mexican who has lived in this and adjoining
counties since the year 1837, and has long been noted among his neigh-
bors for his wonderfully retentive memory and power of description.
He bears an unexceptional [?] reputation for truth and veracity, and
THE EXPRESS has the assurance of many well known and reliable citi-
zens of this county that in what he says he conscientiously endeavors to
tell the truth, and that if there are any inaccuracies in his statement
they must be attributed to incorrect information received at the time
of which he writes. After leaving the Mexican army Senor Nunez re-
entered this country on a passport purchased from a Mexican named
Bacca, and issued to him by General Sam Houston. Fearing punish-
ment for his part in the war against the Texans, he lived for several
years under the name of Bacca. He says he kept the coat of Travis and
the papers contained therein secreted about his premises until about
eighteen years ago, when he found them so worm-eaten and mouldy
that he destroyed the remnants, having all the time feared making his
valuable possessions known, but desiring to retain them as mementoes
of one of the most tragic battles known to the history of the world. The
coat was "home made" of Texas jeans. Nunez has always been reticent
about his part in the war of Texas Independence, but a friend and
neighbor for twenty-five years, Professor Geo. W. Noel, to whom THE
EXPRESS is indebted for the interesting article to follow, has during that
time taken notes of statements made by Nunez during his periods of
confidence, and having secured much information in that way, finally
prevailed on the old gentleman to make a corrected statement concern-
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