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There is no existing muster of the garrison at the Alamo on March 6 or the days immediately leading up to it. Historians have had to assemble an assumed listing of the men by piecing together several different research sources. The surviving original list that is closest to the days of the battle is from from January 1836; I'm not putting in as an image because it's too large, but you can view it here: https://www.thealamo.org/fileadmin/_pro ... 55befd.jpg. That roster predates by about a month the departure from the Alamo of Colonel Neil and his command in February. But on this March 6, it seems a good time to take a look at that final, original, handwritten muster.

The original copy was donated to the Texas General Land Office by one of the biggest--and maybe most unexpected--Texas history buffs, the English musician Phil Collins: https://www.thealamo.org/visit/whats-at ... collection. "Collins fell in love with the Alamo's inspiring story as a 5-year-old boy, when he saw the Disney production of Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. When other children were out playing cops and robbers or other childhood games, Collins says that he was re-enacting the Battle of the Alamo."