In the back of the Alamo Chapel is a display consisting of a door or set of doors from a historical house in San Antonio. What is history of this display? Also, is any of the walls to the long barracks original? In looking at pictures taken through the years it is hard to tell.

Larry W. Ricketts
Edinburgh, IN

Despite what all the books and movies show, I do not believe that there was much fighting at the palisade. At the start of the Mexican assault, the 3 companies of Cazadores that made up the southern column headed for the palisade or, more likely, the main gate. When they were unable to take their objective in the first rush, they retreated to the southwest and took cover among the ruined huts that were there. The palisade would have been away from the main action. After the Mexicans entered the main courtyard, Texans (probably including Crockett and his friends) withdrew into the chapel courtyard and might have took up positions behind the low wall. When the Mexicans attacked the position the Texans who were not killed in the assault withdrew through a small gate located where the palisade met the chapel. They attempted to flee to the east, were they where eventually wiped out by Sesma's calvary. At least that is the way I see it probably happening.

Ed Dubravsky
So. Berwick, Maine