September issue of The Alamo Journal!

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Issue #154, a slightly-expanded issue with glossy-color front and back covers, contains a number of important articles:

Texas’ William Groneman III presents “The Taking of the Alamo Flag.” Groneman examines the various acounts which have depicted one of the most important parts of the March 6, 1836 battle.

Illinois’ Dr. Caroline Collins updates her featured presentation at The Alamo Society’s March 2009 Symposium in San Antonio with “After the Fall (or, Against Forgetting): Collective Memory and Alamo Artists in the 1800s.” Collins describes the artistic efforts of Edward Everett and Theodore Gentilz.

The Alamo Society’s Todd Hansen exclusively updates and corrects entries in his The Alamo Reader. Hansen provides several detailed pages of clarifications, comments and assorted notes. Additional information will follow in issue #155.

Georgia’s Mark Lemon contributes “An Unexpected Find, Part II: Mexican Casualty Returns For the Assault on the Alamo, March 6th 1836,” which state all casualty figures (killed and wounded) for every rank in the reserve Zapadore and Grenadier battalions. Lemon also created and the front cover image, a unique combination of early 20th-century photography and 21st-century artistic skills.

The “Documents of the Texian Revolution” section benefits from Indiana’s Roger Borroel, who contributes a March 10, 1836 Mexican account of the Battle of the Alamo. And Maryland’s Allen Wiener and Florida’s James Boylston provide an August 10, 1835 Crockett letter in which Andrew Jackson and Santa Anna are compared and contrasted. This is a followup of sorts to the authors’ exclusive book preview article from David Crockett in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Poor Man’s Friend in the current issue (August 2009) of The Crockett Chronicle, the quarterly dedicated to the life and legend of David Crockett.

Issue #154 also contains updates on forthcoming Alamo/Crockett books, “Alamo News” reports and other articles.

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