Susan a.k.a. Bluest Eyes In Texas

I'd like to meet:

I Can't really think of anyone that I "just have to meet" right now. Actually, I think I have fallen in LOVE with Toby Keith. I can't look at him without smiling. His music, humor and laugh just turn me on ! I know he is WAY to young for me, but.. . . .so what?

In my life time I have just about met them all. For starters; I went to school with George W. Bush (I'm not bragging), I met and knew Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, and The Big Bopper. I met Teresa Brewer and hundreds of artist and actors/actresses from the 1950's through the 1990's.
(Maybe I should tell you that I lived across the FIELD from the only television station for hundreds of miles. All the stars came there and, starting out; my brother and I hung around and met most of them)
I have met political figures,"people" in the news, ranchers & oil men/women, shady restaurant owners, mafia men, big spenders and gamblers, Hells Angels & Scorpians, hellraisers, rock stars, famous preachers,teachers, doctors, lovers ,liars, Saints, Sinners, people who went to prison & some folks who didn't go to prison (but belong there) and everybody in between. In general, I would say I have met them all; or at least, enough for one person in a life time.

I have met Chuck Norris and he is a truly nice man, cute and a Hunk too.
My brother William R. (Bill) Walker was a Texas Ranger.
I have a nephew in New Mexico who is a famous watercolor artist ( William Schumpert ).

I am a true Daughter Of Texas - My Great Grandmother ~ Valley Belle Bonham was related to James Butler Bonham who fought and died in the Battle Of The Alamo. (My 3 X Great Grandfather and James B. Bonham's Father were Brothers). James and William B. Travis were childhood friends who fought and died together, working the cannon atop the Mission Church.

My ancesters fought in the American Civil War, and The American Revolution. Some on the American Frontier. More current~ WW1 & WW2, Vietnam,Desert Storm and In Iraq Now .~
GOD Bless Them !

WALKER TEXAS RANGER - CHUCK NORRIS

MY BROTHER -WALKER TEXAS RANGER~
BILL WALKER 7/29/45 - 9/7/97 ~ LUKENBOCH TEXAS

JAMES BUTLER BONHAM

A GENTLEMAN ~ LAWYER ~ CONSISTANT REBEL
Birth: Feb. 20, 1807
Edgefield County
South Carolina, USA

Death: Mar. 6, 1836
San Antonio
Bexar County
Texas, USA

JAMES BUTLER BONHAM is remembered for having ridden back into the Alamo to inform his fellow defenders of the hopelessness of the situation, and to join them in their gallant stand. His significance as an historical figure may be measured by the historical importance of the Alamo epic itself. The loyalty and courage represented by his actions gave life to the ringing words of Travis, and embodied the spirit of all the defenders who stood fast in the face of an overwhelming enemy.

LETTER FROM JAMES BUTLER BONHAM TO GENERAL SAM HOUSTON

LETTER CONTENT San Felipe Dec. 1, 1835.General S. Houston.Permit me, through you to volunteer my services in the present struggle of Texas without conditions. I shall receive nothing, either in the form of service pay, or lands, or rations. Yours with great regard--James Butler BonhamP.S. Will you, if you please do me the kindness of shewing this letter, at any leisure moment, to his Excellency the Gov.J.B.B.

Alamo Defender. In Alabama October 1835, he was organizing a volunteer company, the Mobile Grays, for support and service in Texas. He gave up his practice of law, reached Texas in November 1835 and quickly involved himself in political and military affairs.
On December 1, 1835, he wrote to Sam Houston from San Felipe volunteering his services for Texas and on December 20, 1835, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Texas cavalry. He and Houston quickly developed a mutual admiration and Houston recommended he be promoted to major.
On January 19, 1836, he with James Bowie, arrived at the Alamo garrison. He was sent by Lieutenant Colonel Travis to obtain aid for the garrison at Bexar on February 16, 1836. He returned to the Alamo on March 3, bearing through the Mexican lines to give Travis the message that there would be no help. Bonham died in the battle of the Alamo, while manning one of the cannons in the interior of the Alamo chapel. In 1956 the Texas Centennial Commission erected a statue of James Bonham on the courthouse square of the town of Bonham,Texas, named in his honor.

THE ALAMO ~
"I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch.... "VICTORY OR DEATH. " Col.WILLIAM BARRET TRAVIS

SUSANNA DICKINSON ~ HANNING
ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO
READ LETTERS FROM THOSE WHO WERE THERE AT :
http://www.thealamo.org/words.html

The following account appears in an 1875 book by James M.
Morphis entitled History of Texas. As in the case of all other accounts by Mrs. Dickinson, this version is recounted by a third party.1

I will now describe the memorable Fall OF THE ALAMO as related to me by Mrs. Susan Hanning, formerly Mrs. Dickinson, who witnessed it.

"On February 23d, 1836, Santa Anna, having captured the pickets sent out by Col. Travis to guard the post from surprise,2 charged into San Antonio with his troops,variously estimated at from six to ten thousand, only a few moments after the bells of the city rang the alarm.3

"Capt. Dickinson galloped up to our dwelling and hurriedly exclaimed: "The Mexicans are upon us, give me the babe, and jump up behind me." I did so, and as the Mexicans already occupied Commerce street, we galloped across the river at the ford south of it, and entered the fort at the southern gate, when the enemy commenced firing shot and shell into the fort, but with little or no effect, only wounding one horse.

"There were eighteen guns mounted on the fortifications, and these, with our riflemen, repulsed with great slaughter two assaults upon them before the final one.

"I knew Colonels Crockett. Bowie and Travis well. Col. Crockett was a performer on the violin, and often during the siege took it up and played his favorite tunes.

"I heard him say several times during the eleven days of the siege: 'I think we had better march out and die in the open air. I don't like being hemmed up. "There were provisions and forage enough in the fort to have subsisted men and horses for a month longer.

"A few days before the final assault three Texans entered the fort during the night and inspired us with sanguine hopes of speedy relief, and thus animated the men to contend to the last.

"A Mexican women deserted us one night, and going over to the enemy informed them of our very inferior numbers, which Col. Travis said made them confident and emboldened to make the final assault, which they did at early dawn on the morning of the 6th of March.

"Under the cover of darkness they approached the fortifications, and planting their scaling ladders against our walls just as light was approaching, they climbed up to the tops of our walls and jumped down within, may of them to their immediate death.

"As fast as the front ranks were slain, they were filled up again by fresh troops. "The Mexicans numbered several thousands while there were only one hundred and eighty-two Texans.

"The struggle lasted more than two hours when my husband rushed into the church where I was with my child, and exclaimed: 'Great God, Sue, the Mexicans are inside our walls! All is lost! If they spare you, save my child.

"Then, with a parting kiss, he drew his sword and plunged into the strife, then raging in different portions of the fortifications. Soon after he left me, three unarmed gunners who abandoned their then useless guns came into the church where I was, and were shot down by my side. One of them was from Nacogdoches and named Walker.4 He spoke to me several times during the siege about his wife and four children with anxious tenderness. I saw four Mexicans toss him up in the air (as you would a bundle of fodder) with their bayonets, and then shoot him.

At this moment a Mexican officer came into the room, and addressing me in English, asked: "Are you Mrs. Dickinson?' I answered "Yes.' Then said he, 'If you wish to save your life, follow me.' I followed him, and although shot at and wounded, was spared.

"As we passed through the enclosed ground in front of the church, I saw heaps of dead and dying. The Texans on an average killed between eight and nine Mexicans each-182 and 1,600 Mexicans were killed.5

"I recognized Col. Crockett lying dead and mutilated between the church and the two story barrack building, and even remember seeing his peculiar cap lying by his side.

"Col. Bowie was sick in bed and not expected to live, but as the victorious Mexicans entered his room, he killed two of them with his pistols before they pierced him through with their sabres.

"Col.Travis and Maj.Bonham were killed while working the cannon, the body of the former lay on the top of the church.6

"In the evening the Mexicans brought wood from the neighboring forest and burned the bodies of all the Texans, but their own dead they buried in the city cemetery across the San Pedro [creek]."

Footnotes

1. J[ames]. M. Morphis, History of Texas, From Its Discovery and Settlement (NY: United States Publishing Company, 1875), 174-177. For a biographical sketch of Morphis, see http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/ fmo52.html back to text

2. No other person contends that Santa Anna's troops captured any Texan pickets as they approached Béxar. back to text

3. Richard G. Santos, Santa Anna's Campaign Against Texas, 1835-1836 (Waco, TX: Texian Press, 1968), 60, 71. Santa Anna arrived on February 23, 1836, with the Vanguard Brigade, which numbered 1,541 men, and a fifty-man personal escort. Reinforcements arrived on March 3, 1836, which consisted of 864 infantrymen and officers accompanied by about 150 mule herders. These two forces united meant that the total number of troops in Béxar was approximately 2,500--not the 6,000 or more claimed by some early writers. back to text

4. Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin Press, 1990), 117. This man appears to have been Jacob Walker. back to text

5. The number of slain at the battle has been debated for years. For a discussion on the topic, see http://www.thealamo.org/faqs.html. back to text

6. This statement places Travis' body "on top of the church," something that contradicts Joe's account, which contends that Travis was killed on the north wall. back to text

THE ALAMO MEMORIAL ~ SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
In March of 1836, the war for Texas' independence from Mexico was not going well for General Sam Houston and his Texan troops. On March 11, Houston abandoned Gonzales and retreated eastward in advance of the numerically superior forces of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the President of Mexico. Houston's poorly trained troops were restless, eager for revenge after the Goliad massacre and the fall of the Alamo. Houston realized, however, that the Texans had little chance of winning over Santa Anna's much larger army without some sort of advantage.

On April 18, Houston arrived at Buffalo Bayou and found that Santa Anna had already sacked the small town of Harrisburg. Through a captured Mexican courier, he learned that Santa Anna had isolated himself from the bulk of his troops and had a force of about 750 men, slightly smaller than Houston's force of 820 men. Houston realized that his chance had come. On April 19, Houston and his men crossed to the south bank of Buffalo Bayou and marched east, setting up camp near Lynch's Ferry on April 20. An advance guard of the Texans captured a boatload of the Mexican Army's provisions at the ferry, providing food for the famished Texan soldiers.

A small party of Texans retreated back to Houston's position near Lynch's Ferry, with the Mexican forces not far behind. Upon his arrival at nearby San Jacinto, Santa Anna tried to draw the Texans into battle. Skirmishes continued into the late afternoon, when Santa Anna established a camp about three-quarters of a mile east of Houston's position.

In a brief skirmish at sunset, a detail of Texan cavalry almost met with disaster, stoking Houston's fears about his poorly trained, individualistic troops. As darkness fell, both armies settled into camp for the night. Houston ordered his men to eat and rest, while he stayed up all night worrying. Santa Anna, realizing that Houston's forces was slightly larger, built fortifications using saddles, baggage, and anything else available and hoped that reinforcements would soon arrive. Even though his men were exhausted, he kept them up all night on alert, believing that the Texans would attack at first light.

On April 21, dawn came with no attack and Santa Anna relaxed. At about 9 AM about 500 more Mexican troops arrived, to the chagrin of Houston and his men. Houston sent a small detail to destroy Vince's Bridge to delay additional Mexican reinforcements. At noon he held a council of war, at which no decision was reached.

That afternoon, Houston assembled his troops and laid out a plan of battle. The main force advanced quietly in a frontal assault, hoping for the advantage of surprise. Two other groups circled around to the left and right flanks of the Mexican camp. The Mexican troops had relaxed in the knowledge of their numerical superiority and many were eating and sleeping.

The Texans had advanced to within 200-300 yards of the Mexican position before they were discovered and the alarm sounded. The main group of Texans charged the camp, screaming, "Remember Goliad! Remember the Alamo!"" A pitched battle quickly ensued, much of it hand-to-hand at the Mexican fortifications. The two other groups of Texans attacked the flanks, quickly overwhelming the Mexican camp. Houston was wounded, but fought on with his men. In less than twenty minutes, organized resistance ended and many Mexicans were killed by revenge-driven Texans even as they tried to surrender. As the sun sets to the west, the battle ended, the marshes stained scarlet with blood. Nine Texans and 630 Mexicans lay dead or mortally wounded, a tremendous defeat for the Mexican Army.

Those with medical training did their best with minimal supplies to treat the Texan and Mexican wounded. The 700 uninjured Mexican troops were disarmed and placed under guard. A small number, including Santa Anna, escaped from the battle and headed westward to the several thousand troops waiting west of the Brazos River. Houston knew that if Santa Anna was able to reunite with the main body of his army, the war would continue, so he sent out scouts to search for the escapees the next day. By noon, Houston's men had captured Santa Anna, who was disguised as a private. Santa Anna ordered his troops to withdraw from Texas, securing independence for the Republic of Texas.

The San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site holds a significant responsibility to preserve the proud history of the State of Texas and the United States. The famous Battle of San Jacinto that brought TEXAS its independence was fought on this site. Because of the great importance of the Battle to the course of history, the Battleground is of state, national and international significance, a fact that is attested to by the site's National Historic Landmark status.

The primary purpose of the 1,200-acre site is to commemorate the Battle and to preserve the Battleground on which Texian troops under General Sam Houston achieved the independence of Texas by defeating a Mexican Army led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna on April 21, 1836.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site consists of the Battleground, Monument and Battleship TEXAS. It is located within minutes of downtown Houston and a short distance to the beaches of Galveston Island. Millions of visitors come to this area each year to enjoy the mild coastal climate and cultural and sports activities. Students and visitors alike are most fortunate to be able to experience history first hand through living history at the San Jacinto Battleground and Battleship TEXAS State Historic Sites.

SAN JACINTO MEMORIAL ~ HOUSTON, TEXAS

The San Jacinto Monument is dedicated "to Heroes of the Battle of San Jacinto and all others who contributed to the independence of Texas." The monument is a 570-foot limestone shaft topped by a 34-foot, 220-ton star symbolizing the Lone Star Republic. The building incorporates a number of innovative engineering features not common during the 1936 - 1939 period of its construction. In 1992, this technology was recognized with the prestigious designation of State and National Historic Structure by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Criteria for these awards include significant contributions to state and national heritage and to the civil engineering profession. The building is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest stone column memorial.

THE ORIGINAL MEMORIAL

THE NEW MEMORIAL

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