Post by bmoses on Sept 11, 2009 21:17:16 GMT -5
Map Legend
A. Represents the entrance of the Alamo, covered by two cannons, p.p.
B. Temporary redoubts or stakes on end and rocks and dirt between.
C. The guard house.
D. Represents the soldiers’ quarters built of stone.
E. Headquarters of the Alamo, now occupied by the wounded officers.
F. Batteries and platforms where cannons are now mounted.
G. Cannon mounted on the ground with ports on the main wall.
H. Soldiers quarters built out of adobe houses and picketed all around as BW.
I. Strong stone walls without pickets around.
J. The hospital upstairs in a two-story building of stone; the lower story being represented by K and now occupied as an armory for small arms.
L. A large stone quarter for horses. It adjoins the church, hospitals and armory.
M. The magazine in the church, San Antonio de Valero. These are two very efficient and appropriate rooms, each 10 feet square; walls around and above are 4-feet thick.
N. All large vacancies inside the walls of the fortress. The church, San Antonio is within the Alamo and forms a part of the fortress and is marked O.
O. Alamo church.
P. Cannon mounted in the Alamo. The number corresponds with that of the letters (21 may be counted)
Q. The aqueduct as around the fortress by which we are supplied with water marked in red ink.
R. A lake of water from which we contemplate supplying the fortress by ditching from one of the aqueducts laid down.
S. A pass from the present fortress to a contemplated draw bridge across a contemplated ditch inside a contemplated half moon battery as laid down on the plat.
T. A part of said ditch as well as a trapdoor across said ditch which is contemplated to be raised by a tackle from inside the half moon battery.
U. The Hinges on which said bridge is to be raised.
V. The half moon battery at each end of the fortress is contemplated.
W. Contemplated ditch of half moon battery.
X. The contemplated ditch where we wish the permanent water to pass out, erecting an arch over each place and also a redoubt for the permanent cannon in case of siege.
1931 – This plat of the Alamo compound, said to replicate an original map made by Alamo Engineer Green B. Jameson, was included in the Ph.D. dissertation of Amelia Williams. It is likely that the sketch is actually several generations removed from Jameson's two know originals which have never been located. Compare this version with that made by Adina DeZavala in 1917 alamostudies.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=maps&thread=714&page=1. Amelia Williams’ Ph.D. dissertation “A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and the personnel of its defenders.” University of Texas at Austin.