Alamo Soldier

Alamo Soldier is the true story of Napoleon Bonapart Mitchell a 17 year old man from Tennessee. Peolpe called him Peaceful Mitchell because he didn’t like his name. He said that he used that name so he wouldn’t get into a fight with everyone he met.

He traveled to Texas to join the army with Willaim B. Travis’ wife. When he arrived he heard that Davy Crockett and his 13 Mounted Volunteers from Tennessee had arrived a few days earlier so he joined up with them in Nacogdoches.He then joined the Regular Texas Army where he was assigned to the Alamo. He then traveled to Washington-On-The-Brazos with Crockett and his, to see what rank Davy Crockett would have at the Alamo. Just Before he left Washington-On-The-Brazos he met Alice Price and took her to church. He went to San Antoniothe next morning. Peaceful was not the only one at the Alamo that did not want to kill someone but he was one of the few. He hoped that after he got shot at he wouldn’t have any trouble shooting back. Peaceful told Little Joe Bayless that he thought that he had just come to the Alamo to die because he didn’t want to shoot anybody. Peaceful was asigned to the wooden paliside beside Davy Crockett and thats where he died.

Napoleon Bonapart Mitchell was a tall skinny mountain boy from Tennessee. His face was long and skinny like the rest of him. He was poor and wore ragged clothes. He wore a hankercheif that his girlfriend had give him when hee was a boy wherever he went. His Buckskin jacket was to small and he wore a horseskin belt with the hair still on it. He carried an old Kentucky rifle with him and a homeade powderhorn. He had a horse he called Old Blue that was the only family he had. He didn’t want to kill anyone or anything. He couldn’t even ring a chickens neck when he was staying the night in the Summers barn. He lost his dad and his girlfriends when he was 12 years old. He what a very timid man.

I really enjoyed reading this book It was well worth my time, and i am glad i read it. I like reading books about the history of Texas and the Alamo. It was real interesting to learn that some people didn’t want to kill people, and that some people had family on Santa Annas side. I would recomend that anybody that likes books that are funny and serious at the same time read this book because it is a good mix between the two. My favorite part of the book was when Johnny Hays found the Summers girl hidden out in the chicken coop and he wouldn’t let go of her hand and her little brother shot his left ear off. This was a really good book.