Defenders in the Battle of the Alamo

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Defenders of the Alamo

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This page lists the Defenders who were composed of native Tejanos, Americans, and European immigrants. The Defenders were in the Battle of the Alamo, February 23 – March 6, 1836 and killed, are listed here. The Mexican forces had been ordered to draw no quarter. After killing all participants, General Santa Anna ordered the bodies to be burned.

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Source citation: Sons of DeWitt Colony, Texas

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IN THE MEMORY of the HEROES WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES AT THE ALAMO March 6, 1836 IN THE DEFENSE OF TEXAS. "THEY CHOSE NEVER TO SURRENDER NOR RETREAT~~ THESE BRAVE HEARTS WITH FLAG STILL PROUDLY WAVING PERISHED IN the FLAMES OF IMMORTALITY THAT THEIR HIGH SACRIFICE MIGHT LEAD TO THE FOUNDING OF THIS TEXAS

• James C Neill Colonel 1788, NC, to care of family, Survived
• William Barrett Travis Colonel 1810, SC
• David H Crockett, Colonel, 1786, TN

Crockett and McGregor

• James R Bowie Colonel
• Robert Evans Major 1800 Ireland

Captains

• John J Baugh Capt, 1803 VA
• William Charles M Baker, Capt. MO
• Samuel Blair Capt., 1807 TN
• William Blazeby, Capt., 1795, ENG
• William R. Carey, Capt.,1806 VA
• Almaron Dickinson Capt. 1810 TN
• John Hubbard Forsyth, Capt.1797, NY
• William B. Harrison, Capt., 1811 OH
• Albert Martin, Capt. 1808, RI "Immortal 32"
• Robert White, Capt. 1806 "Immortal 32"

Lieutenants

• Robert Campbell, LT, 1810
• Jacob C. Darst LT, 1793 KY, "Immortal 32"
• William Daniel Jackson, LT 1807 Ireland
• Green B. Jameson, LT, 1809, KY
• John Jones, LT, 1810, NY
• George C Kimble,1803 PN
• Edward McCafferty, LT
• Eliel Melton, LT, 1798, GA
• Cleveland Kinloch Simmons, LT, 1810, SC
• James Bonham 2nd LT, 1807, SC
• George Washington Main, 2nd LT, VA
• John M Thurston LT, 1812, PN
• Charles Zanco, PVT, LT, Denmark

Sergeants

• Hiram J Williamson, Sgt-Maj, PN
• Juan Abamillo Sgt., Texas
• Juan A Badillo, Sgt., Texas
• James R Dimpkins, Sgt., England
• William Daniel Hersee Sgt., 1805 England
• John McGregor2nd Sgt., Scotland

Crockett and McGregor

• Robert Musselman, Sgt., 1805, OH
• Andréss Nava, Sgt.,1810, TX
• Isaac Robinson, 4th Sgt., 1808, Scotland
• Joshua G. Smith, Sgt. 1808 NC
• William B Ward Sgt., 1806, Ireland
• Isaac White Sgt, Alabama or KY

Corporals

• William John Lightfoot, 3rd Cpl., 1805, KY
• Gordon C Jennings, Cpl., 1780 CT

Defenders of the Alamo

First_Name, Middle_name,_Last_Name	State, country, KIA or survived	First_Name, Middle,_Last_Name	State, Country, KIA, _or Survived
John Unknown	S. USA, KIA	John B Kellogg, Jr	Gonzales, Immortal 32 KIA
Joe Unknown Travis	USA, Survived, WIA	James Kenny	Virginia, KIA
Juan Abamillo	Texas Tejano, KIA	Andrew J Kent	Texian Immortal 32 KIA
James L Allen	Kentucky Courier, Survived	Joseph Kerr	Louisiana, KIA
Robert A Allen	Virginia, KIA	George C Kimble	Pennsylvania, Gonzales Immortal 32 KIA
Horace Alsbury	Kentucky, Courier	William P King	Gonzales, Immortal 32 KIA
Mills DeForest Andross	Vermont, KIA	William Irvine Lewis	Virginia, KIA
Micajah Autry	North Carolina, KIA	John Wm Lightfoot	Kentucky, KIA
Juan Antonio Badillo	Texas Tejano, KIA	Jonathan Lindley	Illinois, GonzalesImmortal 32 KIA
Peter James Bailey III	Kentucky, KIA	William Linn	Massachusetts, KIA
Isaac G Baker	Alabama, Gonzales Immortal 32 KIA	Byrd Lockhart	Texian, Gonzales,Courier, Survived
William C. Baker	Missouri, KIA	Jose Toribio Losoya	Texas Tejano KIA
John J Ballentine	Pennsylvania, KIA	George W Main	Virginia, KIA
Richard W Ballentine	Scotland, KIA	Samuel A Maverick	Survived Signer TX Independence
John J Baugh	VA KIA	William Malone	Alabama, KIA
Joseph Bayliss	Tennessee, KIA	Wm Marshall	Tennessee, KIA
John Blair	Tennessee, KIA	Capt Albert Martin	Rhode island, Gonzales Immortal 32, KIA
Samuel Blair	Tennessee, KIA	Edward McCafferty	Ireland, KIA
William Blazeby	England KIA	Jesse McCoy	Tennessee, Immortal 32 KIA
James Bonham	South Carolina KIA	William McDowell	Pennsylvania KIA
Daniel Bourne	England KIA	James McGee	Ireland, KIA
Col. James Bowie	Kentucky KIA	John McGregor	Scotland KIA
Jesse B Bowman	Tennessee, KIA	Robert McKinney	Ireland KIA
George Brown	England KIA	Eliel Melton	Georgia, KIA
Robert Brown	USA, KIA	Thomas R Miller	Texian, Gonzales Immortal 32 KIA
James Buchanan	KIA Mississippi	Isaac Millsaps	Tennessee Gonzales Immortal 32 KIA
Samuel Burns	Ireland, KIA	William Mills	Tennessee, KIA
George Butler	Missouri, KIA	Dr. Edward Mitchasson	Kentucky, KIA
John Cain	Pennsylvania, Gonzales Immortal 32, KIA	Edwin Mitchell	Georgia KIA
Robert Campbell	Tennessee, KIA	Napoleon Mitchell	Tennessee, KIA
William Ridgeway Carey	Virginia, KIA	Robert Moore	Virginia KIA
Charles Henry Clark	Missouri KIA	Willis Moore	N. Carolina KIA
M. B. Clark	Mississippi, KIA	Robert Musselman	Ohio KIA
Daniel William Cloud	Kentucky KIA	Andrés Nava	Texas Tejano, KIA
Robert E Cochran	New Hampshire, KIA	George Neggan	Immortal 32KIASouth Carolina
George Wa. Cottle	Missouri Immortal 32 KIA	Andrew Nelson	Tennessee, KIA
Henry Courtman	Germany, KIA	Edward Nelson	S. Carolina, KIA
Lemeul Crawford	South Carolina, KIA	George Nelson	South Carolina KIA
Col "Davy” H Crockett	KIA Tennessee	James Northcross	Virginia KIA
Robert Crossman	KIA Pennsylvania	James Nowlan	England, KIA
Antonio Cruz y Arocha	Texas Tejano, Courier Survived	George Pagan	Mississippi KIA
David P Cummings	Gonzales Immortal 32 KIA	Christopher Parker	Mississippi KIA
Robert W.Cunningham	New York, KIA	William Parks	North Carolina, KIA
Jacob C Darst	Gonzales, Immortal 32 KIA	Richardson Perry	Mississippi KIA
John Davis	Gonzales Immortal 32 KIA	Dr. Amos Pollard	New Hampshire, KIA
Freeman H. K. Day	KIA	John Purdy Reynolds	Pennsylvania, KIA
Jerry C, Day	Missouri KIA	James W Robertson	KIA
Squire Daymon	Gonzales Immortal 32 KIA	Thomas H Roberts	Tennessee, KIA
Wm H. Dearduff	Gonzales Immortal 32 KIA	Isaac Robinson	Scotland KIA
Stephen Dennison	Ireland KIA	James M Rose	Ohio KIA
Charles J Despallier	Louisiana,Immortal 32 KIA	Louis Rose	Left Alamo
Lewis (Dewall) Duell	New York, KIA	Jackson Rusk	Ireland KIA
Almaron Dickinson	Tennessee KIA	Joseph Rutherford	Kentucky KIA
James Dickson	Ireland, KIA	Isaac Ryan	Louisiana, KIA
John Henry Dillard	Tennessee KIA	Mial Scurlock	North Carolina, KIA
James R. Dimpkins	England, KIA	Marcus Sewell	Tennessee, KIA
Andrew Duvalt	Ireland, KIA	Manson Shied	Georgia, KIA
Carlos Espalier	Texas Texian KIA	Cleveland K Simmons	S. Carolina, KIA
José Gregorio Esparza	Texas Tejano, KIA	Andrew H Smith	Tennessee, KIA
Samuel B Evans	New York KIA	Charles S Smith	Maryland, KIA
Major Robert Evans	Ireland KIA	Joshua Smith	North Carolina, KIA
James L Ewing	Tennessee, KIA	John William Smith	Scout Survived
William H Fauntleroy	Kentucky, KIA	William H Smith	KIA
Wm Fishbaugh	Immortal 32 KIA	Richard Starr	England KIA
John Flanders	Immortal 32 KIA	James Stewart	England KIA
Dolphin W Floyd	Immortal 32 KIA	Wm E Summers	South Carolina Immortal 32 KIA
John H Forsyth	New York, KIA	Richard Stockton	New Jersey, KIA
Antonio Fuentes	Texas, Tejano KIA	A Spain Summerlin	Tennessee KIA
Galba Fuqua	Immortal 32 KIA	Andrew J Sowell	Courier Survived
William Garnett	Virginia KIA	William D Sutherland	KIA Tennessee
James W Garrand	Louisiana KIA	Edward Taylor	Tennessee, KIA
James G Garrett	Tennessee, KIA	George Taylor	Tennessee KIA
John E Garvin	Immortal 32, KIA	James Taylor	Tennessee, KIA
John Gaston	Texian Immortal 32 SC	William H Taylor	Tennessee, KIA
James George	VA Immortal 32, KIA	B A.M Thomas	KY KIA
John C Goodrich	KIA	Henry Thomas	Germany KIA
Albert C Grimes	Georgia, KIA	Col William B Travis	South Carolina, KIA
Brigido Guerrero	Texas Survived, convinced Santa Anna was prisoner	John Thomson	KIA
James C Gwynne	England KIA	Jesse Thompson	Arkansas KIA
James Hannum	Tennessee KIA	John M Thurston	Pennsylvania KIA
John Harris	Immortal 32, KIA	Burke Trammel	Ireland KIA
Andrew J Harrison	Tennessee, KIA	James Tylee	New York, KIA
Wm B Harrison	Ohio KIA	George Tumlinson	Immortal 32 KIA
Charles M Haskell	Tennessee KIA	Asa Walker	Tennessee KIA
Joseph M Hawkins	Ireland KIA	Jacob Walker	Tennessee KIA
John M Hays	Tennessee KIA	William Ward	Ireland KIA
Patrick Henry Herndon	Virginia, KIA	Henry Warnell	Arkansas, KIA
William D Hersee	England, KIA	Thomas Waters
Tapley Holland	Ohio KIA	William Wells	Georgia, KIA
Ben Highsmith	Courier Survived	Isaac White	Kentucky KIA
Samuel Holloway	Pennsylvania, KIA	Robert White	South Carolina, Immortal 32 KIA
Dr William D Howell	Massachusetts KIA	Hiram J "H. S." Williamson	Pennsylvania, KIA
Thomas Jackson	Ireland Immortal32 KIA	David L Wilson	Scotland KIA
William D Jackson	Ireland, KIA	John Wilson	Pennsylvania KIA
Green B Jameson	Kentucky KIA	Anthony Wolf	KIA, Spain
Gordon C Jennings	Connecticut, KIA	Claiborne Wright	North Carolina Immortal 32 , KIA
Damacio Jimenez	Texas Tejano KIA	Charles Zanco	Denmark KIA
Lewis Johnson	Virginia KIA	William Sanders Oury	Virginia Scout Survived
William Johnson	Pennsylvania KIA	James Brown	KIA
John Jones	New York KIA

General Land Office List of Defenders

Alamo Survivors

Name	Info	Relation
Juana Gertrudes (Navarro) Alsbury	1812-1888	Survivor
Maria Gertrudis Navarro	1816-1895	Survivor
Juana (Losoya) Melton		Survivor, wife of Elliel Melton
Maria de Jesus Castro		Survivor, step dau of Gregorio Esparza
Enrique Esparza	1828-1917	Survivor, son Gregorio Esparza
Susanna (Wilkerson) Dickenson	1814-	Survivor, Wife of Almaron Dickinson
Angelina Dickinson	1834-	Survivor, dau of Almaron Dickinson

Sources

• http://www.thealamo.org/remember/history/defenders/index.html The Defenders.
• Wikipedia List of Alamo defenders.
• Land grants GLO, Jan.2020
• Austin Genealogical Society PDF Decendants of Defenders of the Alamo.
• New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs: Military History Defenders from New York #1.
• New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs: Military History Defenders from New York, #2.
• The Handbook of Texas Noted New York Defenders.
• The Handbook of Texas Battle of the Alamo. see also; Revolutionary Army and Army of the Republic of Texas
• http://kynghistory.ky.gov/history/2qtr/
• http://www.tennesseehistory.com/class/Alamo.htm
• http://www.sciway.net/south-carolina/alamo-william-travis-james-bonham.html
• http://www.gonzaleschc.org/alamo-defenders.html
• http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/dewittbiosa-g2.htm

• LAND BOUNTY- Texas A league or sitio (4428.4) acres of grazing land and a labor (177.1 acres) of cropland.

See also:

• The Alamo heroes and their Revolutionary ancestors : Bicentennial project, Private Publisher: San Antonio, Tex., 1976
• Barr, Alwyn (1990), Texans in Revolt" The Battle of San Antonio, 1835, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-77042-1
• Edmundson, J.R. (2000), The Alamo Story-From History to Current Conflicts, Plan, TX: Republic of Texas Press, ISBN 1-55622-678-0
• Groneman, Bill (1996), Eyewitness to the Alamo, Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, ISBN 1-55622-502-4
• Alamo Traces: New Evidence and New Conclusions By Thomas Ricks Lindley
• Hardin, Stephen L. (1999), Texan Illiad, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-73086-1
• Hopewell, Clifford (1994), James Bowie Texas Fighting Man: A Biography, Austin, TX: Eakin Press, ISBN 0-89015-881-9
• Meyers, John (1948), The Alamo, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-5779-1
• Tinkle, Lon (1985), 13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0-89096-238-3
• https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/elaine_ayala/article/Ayala-Tejano-independence-has-been-a-story-about-15100233.php
• Todish, Timothy J.; Todish, Terry; Spring, Ted (1998), Alamo Sourcebook, 1836: A Comprehensive Guide to the Battle of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution, Austin, TX: Eakin Press, ISBN 978-1-57168-152-2
• The Alamo Defenders: A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and the Personnel of its Defenders, Google book, By Amelia W. Williams
• http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/alamogarrison.htm