- ENDED - Alamo Battlefield Relics | Sutlers Soldiers Classified Ads
I won this lot several weeks ago at auction, and am keeping just one rifle ball out of the original group, selling the remainder 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
- Battle Flags captured at Fort Gregg; Petersburg, VA
On April 28th, 1865, Maj Gen John Gibbon and fourteen selected men who had distinguished themselves in the capture of Fort Gregg at Petersburg, April 2, 1865, preceded to Washington, D C to turn in captured Confederate flags They were being presented to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in a
- Raising the black flag | Civil War Potpourri
In the battle of the Alamo (Texas War of Independance), General Santa Anna flew the black flag, accompanied by the song "Deguello" which indicated that no prisoners would be taken Indeed, none were Never heard about the black flag in connection with the Alamo Thank you for the information, Timewalker --- Battalion Trice,
- 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
- Gail Borden and condensed milk | Foods Recipes
In 1849 he perfected a meat biscuit, made of dehydrated meat compounded with flour, which he tried to market on a worldwide scale in partnership with Ashbel Smith Although this project left him deeply in debt, for seven years Borden struggled to sell meat biscuits Do you remember the meat biscuit scene in Gates of the Alamo?
- 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
- 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
- Louis Marx The Battle of the Blue and the Gray
But of course my most treasured were The Battle of the Blue and the Gray, Fort Apache, and Davy Crockett at the Alamo, in no particular order As you can see, I also saved the relevant pages from the Sears Roebuck Wish Book, reproduced here
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