Juana Navarro Alsbury - Legacy

Legacy

For many decades, published accounts of the Battle of the Alamo listed only two survivors, Susannah Dickinson and her daughter Angelina, "the Babe of the Alamo".

In the late 1880s Juana was interviewed by her friend Mary Maverick and historian John S. Ford about her recollections of the Battle of the Alamo. The interview took place over 50 years after the battle, and the resulting synopsis was written in the "romantic post-Civil War language of hyperbole that was fashionable in the 1880s". As one of only three accounts by Texian survivors, Juana's interview is "among the most relied upon sources about these non-combatant women and children." The interview was not published until 1995, when it appeared in historian Timoty Matovina's book The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives.