Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-19

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cor,esrondepce San Antonio Express.

affecting the history and fortunes OF :
David Crockett. San Antonio IS In
debted to much of it's fame to that OF
the heroic martyr to liberty, who Tell /,
in the thickest of the fight within the
Alamo. Have you listened to the SIM ,
pliest recital of the facts given by Mrs.
Hannig, formerly Mrs. Dickinson, nee
Wilkerson, in Green county, Georgian
She went, when very young. TO BOIL
var. Hardeman county, Tenn. when
hardly sixteen she married Dickinson
4 New England tradesman, and' IN
1885, went to Texas. When the re-
volt occurred and Mexican invasion
was threatened, Dickinson removed
his youthful wife to San Antonio.
When Santa Anna appeared before
the little city one bright spring morn
ing in 1880, Dickinson, who was lieu
tenant or captain in local company
was mounted on mustang, ana MS
wife was seated behind with child OF
six months in her lap. He entered the
Alamo He and his wife had an apart
ment given them in the basement Oh
the stone church. Crockett occupied
an adjoining room. Here, when not
engaged in loading and firing sort
of "long Tom," a primitive eighteen
FOUNDER, he was accustomed to sa"
his fiddle and abhor confinement With
in stone walls. He was impatient OF
Imprisonment and especially anxious
to have fight with the Mexicans in
an open field, where he might use MS
native weapon, "Betsy" his old-fash'
toned soap stick rifle. ;.
Through ten days Mrs. Hannie
was within the Alamo, encounterlns
Crockett almost hourly till the las
day of the siege when the massacre
occurred. That fatal morning Dick
enson, long before the sun rose, cam
to his wife and bid her adieu. ! hav
heard her tell the story with tearfu
ewes 43 years after the sun wen
down on the terrible day. She SAY
Dickinson but once afterward. ii
was then fighting, sword in hand, {
the doorway of her apartment. Me
rushed into her room. There was
volley of musketry. When conscious
ness was restored her room was fu
of gunpowder smoke. A bullet h'
pierced her leg just below the kne
She was lying on the bed, her infan
six months old, beside her, and
richly dressed Mexican officer stan
ing near.
She remembers, as l forgot to sta'
that simultaneously with the hand
hand fight between her husband a
the Mexicans at the doorway, t'
little boys, sons Of a German gunn'
ran into her room. They were pl
sued by Mexicans, shot down a
bayoneted in her presence, the smo
from the guns filling her room a
enabling her to escape observatl
Alnonte was educated in New
leans. He interposed when the Me
cans sought to take her life, a
caused her to be taken to Santa Ar
This man sought to induce her to
company him to Mexico. When
refused, he concluded to send her
Sam Houston, that the terrible st
she would tell might intimidate
little band of Texas patriots.
Wounded as she was she set
on mustang, with her child in
lap, across the open prairies, for q
zales. She, her infant, and the
gro Ben, the servant Of Travis,
was in command, were the sole
yiyors. But San Antonio should
Mrs. Hannig, now growing old,
the story as I have heard it.
would tell, too, Of her flight, acc
panied by the negro of the inter
ton of Deaf Smith, who saved
when almost dying OF thirst, tat
and of the pain caused by her wo
Hear her tell of her interview
Houston, and how the hero Of I
independence used the hideous
to exasperate his followers
She told him that when she
leaving San Antonio, the town
o ,,,,f,p,o1 with .