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The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
d a host of kindred spirits whose blood was freely offered up for their country's cause, and whom fame has crowned with never-failing glory. The Alamo fell, but not until all of her defenders had suffered martyrs' deaths at the hands of cruel and treacherous Mexicans. The only souls left out of the one hundred and thirty-six to tell the tale of its slaughter was Mrs. Dickinson and a negro. Our guns were captured there and taken by the conquerors to the City of Mexico. In 1847, when Gen. Scott entered the City of Mexico, he espied the old gun among the trophies of war in the capital of the Montezuma, and caused it to be removed to the city of New Orleans, where it remained until the beginning of the present war, when it was put into the celebrated Washington battery and carried to Vicksburg and used against the United States, for whom it had done service for three-quarters of a century. On the 4th of July, when Vicksburg, the great stronghold of Mississippi, fell, this gun was