FOOTNOTES:
[1] For the story of the battle of the Alamo see "An American Thermopylæ," in No. 876.
[2] Begun in Harper's Round Table No. 868.
[3] This letter, which is printed in full in Marshall's Life of Washington, was among the highest personal compliments ever paid Washington. The signers were seasoned soldiers, addressing a young man of twenty-three, under whom they had made a campaign of frightful hardship ending in disaster. They were to be ordered to resume operations in the spring, and it was to this young man that these officers appealed, believing him to be essential to the proper conduct of the campaign.