ENDED - Alamo Battlefield Relics | Sutlers & Soldiers Classified Ads
Jul 12, 2017 · I won this lot several weeks ago at auction, and am keeping just one rifle ball out of the original group, selling the remainder. These items are documented from a 2008 …
Raising the black flag | Civil War Potpourri
Feb 20, 2008 · In the battle of the Alamo (Texas War of Independance), General Santa Anna flew the black flag, accompanied by the song "Deguello" which indicated that no prisoners would …
Tell me more! - Spiking The Guns | Cannons / Artillery & Crew …
May 19, 2021 · The Alamo gun would have been made of cast iron which is naturally brittle, plus the iron was over 100 years old. Iron technology had progressed considerably from the 1740's …
Should Houston have marched to relief of Alamo?
Mar 27, 2011 · IMO, the Alamo garrison should have withdrawn joined with Houston. This would mean abandoning the townsfolk, the sick and wounded of the garrison (including its …
Tell me more! - Blue cannon carriage. | Cannons / Artillery & Crew ...
Aug 25, 2012 · There is a cannon at the Alamo on a blue carriage but that was a Spanish military thing, I think.
NF - Will “The last full Measure” movie, ever be made? | Civil War ...
Dec 12, 2018 · The 2004 Alamo film is the perfect example, great movie, way better on history and props than any other Alamo movie before it, (or Gods & Generals and a lot of other …
Louis Marx' "The Battle of the Blue and the Gray"
Feb 23, 2013 · But of course my most treasured were The Battle of the Blue and the Gray, Fort Apache, and Davy Crockett at the Alamo, in no particular order. As you can see, I also saved …
Texas Forts Trail | Forts, Fortifications, & Other Forgotten Places
Feb 23, 2013 · It has been home and headquarters to many Hollywood productions working "on location" at nearby Brackettville and James T. "Happy" Shahan's ranch, beginning in 1959 with …
Uniform historians of note. | Relic Hunting & Collecting
Aug 25, 2012 · This publication shown here was the ca. 1960 revised second edition of a battlefield tour guide he originally produced when he was in high school! (I also own a similarly …
Uniforms - Home guard uniforms North and South. | Ranks, …
Dec 16, 2019 · There were "Old Pattern Jackets" Infantry and Artillery still in stores at the Alamo, unissued and damaged, and while I've known a lot of folks to believe with their hearts them to …