The discovery of an additional week's worth of entries in the diary of Jose Enrique de la Pena has opened another chapter in the longstanding controversy over the authenticity of the Mexican officer s account of the Battle of the Alamo.
In this expanded edition of "With Santa Anna in Texas," Texas Revolution scholar James E. Crisp, who discovered the new diary entries in an untranslated manuscript version of the journal, discusses the history of the de la Pena diary controversy and presents new evidence in the matter. With the missing week and the perspective Crisp provides, the diary...