Monumental Fame of the Heros of the Alamo.
It is composed of the stone from the blood-stained walls of the Alamo. The color is white. Its height from the base to the urn is ten feet six inches. The architecture is of the componte? order. four fluted columns arise surmounted by a capital on which the cenotaph rests
N?th? capital to the base, two sides present an e?entcheon?, on which is enrolled the names of the heroes who fell at the Alamo,while the remaining two, a death's head & cross bones
Each square of the capital is worked? in raised letters with the name of one of the four leaders of the venerable? conflict, viz: Travis, Bowie, Crockett & Bonham. Oh the first side of the cenotaph is the following inscription.
"To the God of the fearless spre?, is dedicated this altar made from the ruins of the Alamo." on the second, "Blood of heroes has stained one?; Let the stones of the Alamo speak that their immolation be not forgotten." On the