Many early newspaper articles and histories incorrectly recorded her as the sole survivor. Susanna Dickinson receives the most attention as a survivor of the Alamo. All Photos Courtesy True West Archives Unless Otherwise Noted. After the Alamo battle, they were considered the only survivors. Tennessee native Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson (left) was in her early twenties when she and her 15-month-old daughter, Angelina, found refuge at the Alamo on February 23, 1836. Most were lucky enough to have lived through the early morning fight. A few sheltered in other parts of the fort. Most of the women and their children endured the battle in a back room of the Alamo church. Gunfire had barely ceased in and around the Alamo on the morning of March 6, 1836, when Mexican soldiers gathered a group of traumatized, frightened women and children and led them from the fort.įacts about the Alamo survivors have blurred over the years due to conflicting accounts, editorializing by interviewers, failing memories and some hostilities among certain survivors. Not as well remembered are their families who endured the thirteen-day siege and final battle alongside them.
We remember the Alamo siege and battle for the men who died there. “Battle of the Alamo” by Percy Moran, ca.
From the battle cry “Remember the Alamo!” to modern times, the legend of the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, has inspired generations of artists to interpret the drama of the Texas revolutionaries defending the Alamo Mission and its inhabitants-many of them women and children-against the onslaught of Mexican General Santa Ana’s forces.
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