San Antonio trip - Day 2 at the Alamo, River Walk, and San Marcos

Our second day in San Antonio, we had to visit the Alamo, of course. We were reading through all the names, and I found a Baugh had died at the Alamo. I'll have to figure out later if I'm related.

I'm trying to locate any information on John Baugh of the Alamo. I've done an extensive Baugh Family Geneology back to 1500's in England and 1600' - 1700's we were vary strong in the Virginia area. I've seen it listed that JJ Baugh was from VA - that he sounded the alarm before the final attack - and have seen a few letters he wrote. I was wondering if you had anything more on him personally?

Schelle Taylor
Houston

According to the New Handbook of Texas, John J. Baugh was born in Virginia in 1803. He served as the adjutant of the Alamo garrison,. He traveled to Texas in 1835 as a first lieutenant of Thomas H. Breece's company of New Orleans Greys and took part in the siege of Bexar. After the battle he was promoted to captain and served as Lt. Col. James C. Neill's adjutant with the Texan force left to garrison the town. Baugh entered the Alamo with the garrison under Lt. Col. William Barret Travis on February 23, 1836, when the Mexican army arrived. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/adp/central/forum/forum49.html

Elena inside the walls, it's very pretty inside the grounds, I wish I'd gotten more pictures.



And downtown they were having a street fair. We had some great Chicken ka-bobs.



Later on we ate in a restaraunt by the riverwalk, and again, I forgot to get pictures. Then, of all the things that Elena wanted to do, the thing she most wanted was to see the outlet shops at San Marcos. So we drove out and only got a glimpse of all the things there.