We
have a cenotaph because they had no remains.
Not wanting any martyrs graves, Santa Anna ordered his soldiers to burn the
bodies of all of the Alamo defenders.
The Cenotaph marks one of three immolation sites.
The
Alamo Cenotaph, built in 1940, contains one-hundred-eighty names of men who
died in the Alamo battle. The brochure currently
distributed at the Alamo contains one-hundred-eighty-nine such names.
Through the years, men’s names have been
added and taken away because research is still done every day at the Daughters
of the Republic of Texas Library and other places.
These
men came to Coahuila-Tejas, Mexico, hoping to build a new life, and ended their
lives by helping to build a new country they called Texas. They were part of a small minority of citizens,
less than five percent, who won independence and liberty for all.
I have
had the good fortune to meet several descendents of these men and it is always
a special honor.
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