An Altar For Their Sons: The Alamo and the Texas Revolution in
Contemporary Newspaper Accounts is a collection of rare documentary
materials, the great majority of them not seen or referenced since
their dates of original publication. This book has been designed to
serve several audiences, among them the scholar, serious student,
casual buff, and general reader, all of whom will find much that is
"new" here in terms of the history of the Alamo siege and battle,
of the Texas Revolution in general, and of the lives of the people
involved, not to mention the events that both preceded and followed
that conflict. Aside from the book's primary focus, the battle of
the Alamo, this collection includes on-the-spot accounts of most of
the other engagements, skirmishes and massacres, descriptions of
the forts, towns, and geography, and information concerning the
armies, weapons and clothing involved. There are also word sketches
of the appearances of such important figures as David Crockett,
James Bowie, and Santa Anna that have apparently eluded modern
biographers. Included, too, are many anecdotes of their lives, both
in and out of Texas, and descriptions of pieces of their personal
property handed down in the postwar years. Newspaper accounts from
later decades present interviews with survivors, or their
obituaries, and descriptions of the Alamo itself as it evolved from
a weed-choked ruin into an iconic shrine. The book contains several
dozen original illustrations by the author, each one explained
in-depth with a footnoted, essay-long "caption". There is also a
newly created pictorial representation of the entire Alamo compound
as it looked in February and March 1836, accompanied by a lengthy
analysis of the fortifications based on a re-examination of the old
evidence and a dissection of newly found information. Included
photographs of selected Alamo- and Texas Revolution-related relics
from the extraordinary collection of singer Phil Collins.
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