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Title: Historical sketch and guide to the Alamo
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bennett, Leonora. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: San Antonio, Tex.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed ground, togetherwith the monastery to the North, were separated fromthe balance of the field by a dividing fence of stone,almost as strong and high as the outer wall. Behind the church of the Alamo ran the ditch, andalong its course grew stately cottonwoods, their leaves-rustling gently in the breezes from the gulf, the musicsounding like the pattering of a gentle rain. The ditchon which these grew was known as the Madre deAcequia, or Mother Ditch, the only means the missionhad of obtaining water. It requires but little play ofthe imagination to think of those mighty cottonwoodsstretching forth their great arms as if to shelter thechurch and the little band within while that awful car-nage of death and destruction doomed the gallant bandto their everlasting fate. The change of name fromthe Spanish Duke de Velaro to the local name of TheAlamo seems most appropriate and poetic. The Alamo stands in the midst of a civilization suchas the world has ever known, yet separate and alone 118
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MISSION SAN JUAN DE CAPISTRANO, 1731-THIRD MISSION. with its dead. Among us, it is not yet of us. Its his-tory is its own, and as it Hves it holds aloft the recordof deeds well done- whereby the liberty of Texas waspurchased at a price though dear yet borne by themartyrs without murmur or complaint. Remember the Alamo!The very walls have voices—solemn tones,And spirits pulse their breathing in thy stones;Not moans, for when I place them to my earsI hear the echo of Jacintos cheers, On, On, Revenge the Alamo! Live on, speak on forever, thou glorious Alamo! 121 PART IV. Tributes to the Heroes of the Alamo.A TRIBUTE. Reverently Inscribed to the Alamo and Its Illustrious Dead. By Geo, D. Emery, Minneapolis, Minn. Tread softly in this sacred place Twice dedicated unto God,For martyrs of heroic race Have sanctified it with their blood.To teach the lessons of His faith In pious love these stones were piled.Ere Tyranny, with poisonous breath Its holy altars had defiled,Here bowed the monk i

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