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Post by TRK on May 3, 2012 14:35:18 GMT -5
Think gunfights....
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Post by Allen Wiener on May 3, 2012 15:21:32 GMT -5
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Post by sloanrodgers on May 3, 2012 17:13:02 GMT -5
It's interesting that the readily accessible August 8, 1857 issue of the Austin State Gazette at texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth81306/m1/4/zoom/?q=Houston seems to place Houston's afternoon speech in front of the "Plaza House," while Judge Oldham's speech in response that evening is placed on "Alamo Plaza." Perhaps someone who knows where that Plaza House was can tell us if that means a politically significant opposition of Military Plaza to Alamo Plaza, or not. I should think the answer to the original question lies therein, but I don't know what hotels were on Military Plaza at that point. Edit: Oops, that's Plaza House, not Hotel. Stephen Schneider Well, that August 8th issue certainly shows where everyone was speechifying in San Antonio. All I found the other day was a vague August 1st excerpt. While I think it's possible that Houston visited the Alamo at some time, I'm not sure why it's so important. Nobody ever asks if he visited the Horsehoe Bend or San Jacinto battlegrounds after these wars. Was Houston the type of crippled veteran that wanted to dredge up old battlefield memories, where he and comrades had bled and friends had died? I don't know. I've rarely revisted the places where comrades, family and friends have passed away as the memories can be rough on the soul. One can be respectful from afar in my opinion. Thanks for posting the link to the whole article. Spelling correction
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Post by cje on May 6, 2012 23:18:55 GMT -5
Please excuse my absence from this forum. My family and I have suffered some illnesses and setbacks that have needed my attention. I wish to thank all of you who had read and especially spent a great deal of your personal time and effort looking through your various resources to answer my question concerning a possible documented visit to the Alamo following the battle. Much appreciated! I would beg Mr. Tom Kailborn's forgiveness for his several past responses that somehow I failed to read. I am not sure where I lost it but not doubt my error somehow. Tom thank you for all of your time and research. And skr, I was looking at Houston's Alamo visit(s) in a way that he might have gone there just to honor the fallen Alamo defenders regardless of his personal thoughts. I know this may have seemed to have been an offbeat question but perhaps have expanded some thoughts on the Alamo. I have always appreciated the openness of the Alamo Studies Forum of questions and the sharing of insights and exchanges especially from those more gifted with various Alamo learning. Thanks to everyone for your patience and insights. cje
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Post by TRK on May 7, 2012 8:07:44 GMT -5
No problem, cje; your question got us questing, and that's a good thing. You and your family are in my thoughts; stay well.
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Post by cje on May 7, 2012 9:05:28 GMT -5
Thanks Tom, much appreciated.
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Post by sloanrodgers on May 7, 2012 17:30:49 GMT -5
And skr, I was looking at Houston's Alamo visit(s) in a way that he might have gone there just to honor the fallen Alamo defenders regardless of his personal thoughts. I know this may have seemed to have been an offbeat question but perhaps have expanded some thoughts on the Alamo. No problem. Houston may have done so, but he apparently didn't write about his Alamo visit or reflect on it to anyone. In my opinion people didn't dwell on battlegrounds and their history as much as we do today. Some may have been too busy dealing with the trials and tribulations of their lives to make pilgrimages to faraway battlefields in the years immediately after the war. I had an uncle who lost his arm at Chickamauga Creek. As an old man he would sometimes wake up screaming in the middle of the night that the bloody Rebs were coming to get him. He never recovered from that war, never married and never returned to that scene of carnage. Some veterans want to revisit the violent locales of their youth and some do not. I believe it's a matter of a vet's personal preference, not of honor or respect, but it was an interesting question that as Tom said, got people talking briefly on the subject.
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