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The McArdle Scrapbooks Dawn at the Alamo
Reuben M. Potter to McArdle, August 13, 1874
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exhibit an escalade just on the point of success
with dead assailants heaped about the feet of the
ladders, & and slain defenders with heads & limbs hang-
ing over the edge of the upper masonry. If the
point of view be high enough to look over the palisades
of the entrenchment (R ): another storming party might
be shown charging through the shattered door of
the church at the west, while the leap is in the
act of occurring at the east end. The embrazure
from which the jump was made was 18 or 20 feet
feet from the ground. Dickensons wife was then
in the church, and, as you know, survived the action.
Poetical license might place her in that embrazure,
big, as she was with coming maternity, but on
the point of following the false leap, when with-
held by a soldier. Who might that man more
fittingly be than David Crocket in buckskin, hold-
ing the woman with one hand, while he fires his
last shot with the other, and while a squad of
fusileers are aiming for a last return of his fire.
If the southern view of the church have sufficient
______[?] to see obliquely the west end, or front, of
the building, then the point of Dickensons leap will
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Reuben M. Potter to McArdle, August 13, 1874, The McArdle Notebooks, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.