Something I've always wondered but haven't really seen anything related to it.

Irish_Man said:

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Something I've always wondered but haven't really seen anything related to it.

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need more border protection

Can't find any official statements specific to the Alamo, but as soon as the Texians declared independence, Congress began discussing it.

Here's some quick reading.

Jackson:
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/december-21-1836-statement-independence-texas

and:


Gettysburg Compiler, May 17 1836

And then General Gaines gets the Southwester division assignment to the Sabine River to maintain the border and, cough cough, prevent American volunteers from going over to fight:

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fga03

Worth noting that, in addition to the considerations he gave in his written statement, Jackson was also pretty busy with Florida at the time.

News obviously travelled slower then, so reports of the Alamo and news of the independence declaration were overlapping in some newspapers and maybe even in D.C., but it was widely and sympathetically reported.

Walt Whitman wrote a poem celebrating the valiant Fannin and his wonderful comrades in arms. Really

"Where ?"

I just taught it about six weeks ago. It's Section 34 of Song of Myself.



Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
(I tell not the fall of Alamo,
Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)
'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.

Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,
Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.

They were the glory of the race of rangers,
Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
Bearded, sunburnt, drest in the free costume of hunters,
Not a single one over thirty years of age.

The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.

None obey'd the command to kneel,
Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,
A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,
Some half-kill'd attempted to crawl away,
These were despatch'd with bayonets or batter'd with the blunts of muskets,
A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
The three were all torn and cover'd with the boy's blood.

At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;
That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men.

Doubt they were sunburnt and it was beginning of spring, not summer

Whitman should have made it rhyme.

Is that not about Goliad?

Yes, it is about the Goliad Massacre, which is what Huisachel was referring to.

My bad. Was stuck on Alamo...

What was the reaction at the Alamo when D.C. was burned?

ABATTBQ87 said:

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Doubt they were sunburnt and it was beginning of spring, not summer

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I don't think he meant sunburnt in the way a red head at the beach too long gets.
He meant permanently suntanned, which was common in Texas before TV and AC.
I remember when the USAF sent my father overseas in 1952 and my mother came back to Texas to stay with her mother in Lometa...four year old me was very impressed by how sunburnt and wirey all the men were.