dcbowers,
Regarding Augustus Magee, stay tuned. The entire biography of him prior to the expedition consists of one sentence in the Handbook of Texas. I've got 10 pages on him in my master's thesis and am currently working on a detailed article with much more. Until the latter comes out, here you go on Magee. This is the section of my thesis that outlines his very interesting, and surprising history. He wasn't a poor adventurer, but from one of the richest families in Boston:
http://gutierrez-magee.texhist.com/2017/01/the-military-men.htmlAnd no, he was NOT third in his class at West Point, as all the previous articles say. He was 2nd, but even that was meaningless because it was only chronological for 1809, and class rankings did not begin until 1815. In 1809, you simply graduated when you finished the coursework. He finished in 7 months, which was slightly better than average at the time. He did, as my article points out, have a very good preparatory education.
As for Magee's actual place of burial no one knows. He died during the siege of Goliad (in 1813) and was buried somewhere within the Fort probably, but no one knows. Oddly enough, the folks at Goliad do have several bones of an unidentified individual that were dug up by archaeologists in the 1960s. They dug up lots of bones, but all the others were in the church graveyard and were reburied. This one was apparently outside it. Because Magee was a presbyterian and could not be buried in a catholic cemetery, it's not impossible that it's him. But it's basically just part of a jaw and an arm bone or something like that.