The Church of the Alamo, San Antonio de Bexar - 1847

As Travis, Bowie, and Crockett Knew It When the United States Army marched into San Antonio in 1846, Sgt. Edward Everett was ordered to sketch the local landmarks. Here's what he had to say about the Alamo: "I can present nothing new regarding the history of the Alamo, but can only give the account of the condition in which we found it in 1846-47, and subsequent developments on clearing away the debris of the fallen walls and roofs. There was no pretensions to ornamental architecture except in the facade of the church, and portions of its interior. Such of the other buildings as remained, having the usual thick and roughly-built stone walls, and heavy plaster roofs. These we rebuilt and adapted to our purposes without remorse.  But the church we respected as an historical relic — and as such its characteristics were not marred by us.  We had the debris cleared away from the interior, in which process several skeletons and other relics of the siege were found. The keystone over the fr