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Susanna Dickinson

On a cold March dawn in 1836, Mexican officers escorted a shaken young woman and her infant daughter past the heaps of dead in the Alamo courtyard to Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. The woman, Susanna Dickinson, was the wife of Alamo defender Almaron Dickinson. She and her baby were hiding in the Alamo's chapel when Mexican troops bayoneted her husband and took the mission.

Image: Susanna Dickinson. Image courtesy of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Audio: Houston Public Media

Photograph of Susanna Dickinson