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Post by Kevin Young on Oct 8, 2011 20:42:38 GMT -5
Well, here is a scare for you. There is an earlier version than 1860.
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Post by alamonorth on Oct 8, 2011 21:37:20 GMT -5
Kevin, I think that you mentioned this on some earlier post, but I cannot locate it off hand. You sent me a partial transcript of some of the material, which I cannot find, and I was wondering if you now have the full newspaper article.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Oct 8, 2011 22:29:21 GMT -5
Yeah -- I'm scared!! Where is it? Must have this!
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Post by stuart on Oct 9, 2011 4:26:52 GMT -5
Well, here is a scare for you. There is an earlier version than 1860. That figures, he was in Matamoros in '36 and interviewed some of Grant's men so he had to have been researching it from way before 1860
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Post by Kevin Young on Oct 9, 2011 7:23:37 GMT -5
Ken-what I sent you were his comments in the San Antonio paper regarding the Alamo Express claims that the Ruiz account was more accurate...part of that was due to the fact of politics: at the point Potter published his 1860 account with the San Antonio Herald, the secession movement was in full swing in SA. The Herald was the pro-Southern paper, while the Alamo Express was the Unionist paper. It was getting to the point that anything the Herald printed, the Express would try and counter, which was funny, since Potter was a very loyal Union man (and at that point he was one of the QM's at the Alamo for the US Army. Vicki Betts transcribed the whole Potter/Ruiz stuff on the her webpage which I believe that I linked earlier somewhere on this page.
Potter was a real Alamo fan from day one (really, we could consider him the original Alamo buff) as he was talking and interviewing Mexicans and other participants since the Mexicans retreated to Matamoros. I was not surprised that there is an earlier account (two Alamo researchers found it independently and it will be included in their publications). I suspect that the US Army officers account of the Alamo from 1846 may also be Potter inspired as well.
Personally Hiram-I think you should go ahead and publish your Potter work.
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Post by davmart1 on Oct 12, 2011 7:51:21 GMT -5
Thanks Herb and Kevin..... David Martin
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