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ENDED - Alamo Battlefield Relics | Sutlers Soldiers Classified Ads These items are documented from a 2008 archaeological dig beneath The History Shop, located across the street from what was the north wall of the ALAMO Items for sale here are: 1 rifle ball, about 509 caliber (This seems almost certainly to have been fired by a "Texian ") 2 musket balls, both around 64 caliber (These could be either
Alamo relics: Need help with identifying | Relic Hunting Collecting A couple of weeks ago, I won two lots, at auction, of Alamo battlefield relics from a 2008 dig Along with some recognizable items (rifle and musket balls, buttons, shoe buckles and pottery) there are these metal relics, which I am hoping a few can be identified as to what they are
Tell me more! - Spiking The Guns | Cannons Artillery Crew Served . . . 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 to the 1860's, but iron guns did fail during the Civil War and the trunnions that I have heard of being knocked off during the War came from being struck by projectiles
NF - Will “The last full Measure” movie, ever be made? | Civil War . . . 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 historical movies for that matter), and a distributors worst nightmare at the box office Nope no Last Full Measure
Raising the black flag | Civil War Potpourri Never heard about the black flag in connection with the Alamo Thank you for the information, Timewalker ---Battalion Trice, indeed, I forgot about Fort Pillow Now after reading your post I refreshed my memory, although the explanation with the signal flag was unknown to me
Louis Marx The Battle of the Blue and the Gray - American Civil War . . . Note the inevitable increase in prices for these, plus the fact they were merchandised differently over the years - in 1956 when Walt Disney's Davy Crockett - King of the Wild Frontier was all the rage on television, there were "official" Marx sets bearing the names of both Walt and his gold mine; later, it was enough to have simply Alamo sets so as to not have to pay those pesky licensing fees!
Battle Flags captured at Fort Gregg; Petersburg, VA Reference: The Confederate Alamo by John J Fox III The fourteen MOH recipients were: Cpl Andrew O Apple, 12th West Virginia Lt Josiah M Curtis 12th West Virginia Pvt Joseph McCauslin, 12th West Virginia Sgt Robert J Gardner, 34th Massachusetts Cpl Charles A Hunter, 34th Massachusetts Cpl Freeman C Thompson, 116th Ohio
Gail Borden and condensed milk | Foods Recipes - American Civil War . . . One of the things it doesn't mention here is that his paper was one of the first, if not the very first, to carry news of the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto Imagine the sadness of setting the type to let the world know your friends had died, as well as the joy of announcing the victory over Santa Anna so people could come home from the Runaway
Identifying possible cannonball | Cannons Artillery Crew Served Weapons Looking for more information from people more knowledgeable than myself I was left what my grandparents believed was a civil war cannonball My great-grandparents tilled it up from their tobacco field in eastern KY about 70-75 years ago, its sat on one fireplace or another since, before
Color of Confederate Cannons and Caissons There are now two small iron guns--both replicas--without carriages that have been emplaced on Alamo Plaza in the approximate position where period illustrations showed un-mounted gun tubes lying in the Plaza of the old mission-turned-fort The replicas don't have touch-holes, unfortunately Come on down to the Alamo this 9 October!