The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1998 Page: 3 of 14
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Friday, March 6,1998
The Clifton Record
3
•ALAMO
CondniMd From Pig* On*
slept and chased the young Mexi-
can sehoritas, or sat around the San
Antonio cantinas chatting about the
feud between Bowie and TYavis as
to whom was in command of the
Alamo.
Suddenly, Pvt. Daniel William
Cloud realized that to the south,
where only moments before there
had been nothing but emptiness,
there appeared hundreds of Mexi-
can soldiers and cavalry. He stood
in disbelief. He ran for the bell rope,
pulling with all his might. The tones
of the bell reverberated through the
city and countryside, announcing
Santft Anna’s approach.
Many of Sin Antonio’s 4,000
Mexican inhabitants began evacu-
ating the city moving northwest
over the muddy road with all their
belongings they could carry, a far
different scene than the fiesta of the
day before in honor of “El Senor
Jorge Washington.”
General Antonio Lopez de Santa
Anna, the Mexican dictator, was
there to revenge the four straight
Texas victories over his Mexican
troops, at Gonzales, at Goliad, at
Concepcfon, and particularly at San
Antonio de Bexar, where Gen. C6s
had been routed after four days of
furious fighting which had cost the
Texans their leader, Ben Milam.
Twenty-seven-year-old William
Travis stood in the plaza, running
his fingers through his red hair, for-
mulating his plans to defend Bexar
and the Alamo. If onlv Jim Bonham
would arrive—it had been six days
since he had sent Bonham to Goliad
to talk Col. James W. Fannin into re-
inforcing his command at the
Alamo with his 400 Texan troops.
Col. Travis put Davy Crockett in
charge in the plaza. Crockett had
only been in San Antonio 15 days
before Santa Anna’s arrival. Davy
had become disgusted with the vot-
ers of Tennessee after being elected
twice as their representative to
Congress, but failing in his third try.
Davy told his constituents in his dis-
appointment, “You all can go to hell,
and I’m going to Texas.”
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The colorful and appealing char-
acter of Davy Crockett enhanced
the small band of Texans and their
emotional feelings at the thought of
defending the small fort a half-mile
east of town, popularly known as
the Alamo.
Davy is quoted as saying when he
arrived, "We heard you were hav-
ing trouble with the likes of old
Santy Anny, and we ’lowed as how
we might help you since we like a
good fight.”
Capt. Almeron Dickenson, in
charge of the Texas artillery — not
long after the bells stopped clang-
ing — raced his horse to his living
quarters not far from the plaza. He
fetched his 18-year-old wife Susana
■ and 15-month-old daughter
Angelina, returning with them to
the safety of the Alamo. There were
several other women of Mexican
descent inside, but Mrs. Dickenson
was the only woman there from the
states.
Jim Bowie came to Texas in
search of silver and land. Now as
the story goes, Vice-Governor Juan
Veramendi had a beautiful young
daughter named Ursula. On April
23,1831, after the customarily long
Mexican courtship, Jim Bowie and
Ursula de Veramendi were mar-
ried. Bowie and Ursula were ex-
tremely happy together, and soon
two children were born.
In 1833, a cholera epidemic was
running rampant throughout the
States and Mexico. Jim sent his
wife Ursula and their two children
to the family’s summer home at
Monclavo with Ursula’s father and
mother. He figured that they would
be safe in the mountain air of that
resort. He was to join them in the
fall when he finished his deals in
Natchez. Within three -days’ time,
from the 5th to the 8th of Septem-
ber, Bowie’s wife, his two children,
Ursula’s father and mother, ail died
from the cholera.
Bowie was shaken as never be-
fore. In a speech he made before
the Texas Consultation in 1835, his
emotional state was truly reflected
as he said that he had yielded to the
dictates of his own heart, he had
taken tp his bosom as a wife “a true
VOTE
Re-Elect
Your
JANE H. (Janie) STALEY
Bosque County Clerk
Democratic Primary March 10, 1998 ^
Appreciated-THANKS
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and lovely woman, the daughter of
a Coahuil-Texano,”’ yet like a thief in
the night, death had invaded his
home and had taken his wife, his little
ones, and his in-laws. Now all that re-
mained for him in life was the privi-
lege of serving Texas.
Jim Bowie, who’s national reputa-
tion proclaimed him the champion of
knife-fighters, was sent to the Alamo
Jan. 17,1836, by Gen. Sam Houston
to destroy the mission fort. However,
Col. Bowie and Col. William B. TYavis
decided that San Antonio was the
“key to Texas,” and must never be
abandoned. The two heroic Texans
never liked each other, but on this
they agreed, even if their lives were
forfeit in disobeying Gen. Houston’s
orders.
Frank X. Tolbert, in his book “An
Informal Histoiy of Texas,” says that
Santa Anna usually carried a mis-
tress along on military campaigns,
but when he arrived in San Antonio
he didn’t have such a diversion.
Perhaps the “Tiger of Mango de
Clavo,” as President Mirabeau B.
Lamar referred to him, and who also
had a wife at Mango de Clavo, was
remembering those days at the age
of 19 as a cadet in the army of the bru-
tal Mexican General Arredondo
when they had occupied San Anto-
nio in 1813, and Santa Anna had ac-
complished a romance with Gen.
Arredondo’s mistress, Miss Pia
Quinta.
As the siege of the Alamo took
Santa Anna 13 days, as one might ex-
pect, the Mexican presidente began
courting a beautiful teenager of 17.
Melchora Iniega Berrera belonged to
one of the best families of San Anto-
nio. Melchora’s mother, more con-
cerned with the virtue of her
daughter than fear of Santa Anna,
demanded marriage before he ob-
tained the favors of the young beauty.
Santa Anna reluctantly agreed. He
then arranged for one of his ser- \
geants to disguise himself as a priest
to do the wedding ceremony.
Miss Berrera lived with her
mother in one of San Antonio’s bet-
ter houses. Santa Anna moved into
the Berrera home for a honeymoon
while the bloody siege of the Alamo
was in progress.
By March 4, the main column of
Santa Anna’s army had arrived.
Rambn Caro, Santa Anna’s secretary
in his account of the siege of the
Alamo, stated that the Mexican dic-
tator entered the area towards the
close of the battle to direct the
slaughter of the defenders of the
Alamo — 183 brave patriots of the
Texas Revolution — on March 6,
1836. \
Next week, the fight for Texas In-
dependence will continue from
within the Alamo, and the fate of
Texas’ brave heroes there, until the
battle of San Jacinto on April 21,1836.
Oddly enough, Santa Anna and his
diversions with the fair sex cost him
Texas. The den of the Tiger of Mango
de Clavo, which once echoed the
cries of helpless womankind, would
prevail in the end.
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Your Vote and Vocal Support Is Appreciated
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