From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   GTT wrote:   
      
   > Well, if that era in Texas history is of interest to you, you should read   
   > it.   
   > If not, .... ?   
   > Jackson is an objective writer who tells it like he sees it in all of his   
   > books.   
   > This one, of course, is merely Almonte's diary.  I forget if it was   
   > annotated or not.   
      
   I don't find it reviewed, but the blurbs mention annotation. I suspect,   
   though, that Jackson, as editor, would certainly add notes to put things   
   into perspective and point out the significance of various reports. An   
   important work, since Almonte's reports would, even if they were   
   reporting what his boss wanted to hear, have shaped Santa Anna's   
   attitudes and intentions. And, not in the diary, of course, Almonte   
   supposedly makes his own contribution to the accounts of the Alamo   
   aftermath, via George Dolson's account of interviews while Almonte was a   
   prisoner in Galveston.   
      
   The diary is also one piece of what is, to me, a surprisingly large and   
   still extent amount of paraphernalia collected off the battleground and   
   preserved after San Jacinto. I'll have to look for it. It sounds like a   
   work that goes far to clarify the why's, since what mattered most was   
   the president's view of happenings in Texas.   
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