John J. Baugh, adjutant of the Alamo garrison, was born 1803 in Virginia. He traveled to Texas in 1835 as a first lieutenant of Thomas H. Breece’s company of New Orleans Greys and took part in the Siege of Béxar. After the battle he was promoted to captain and served as Lt. Col. James C. Neill’s adjutant with the Texan force left to garrison the town. Baugh entered the Alamo with the garrison under Lt. Col. William Barret Travis on February 23, 1836, when the Mexican army arrived. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

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William Blazeby, defender of the Alamo, was born 1795 in England. He traveled to Texas from New York by way of New Orleans as a second lieutenant in Capt. Thomas H. Breece’s company of New Orleans Greys. Blazeby took part in the Siege of Béxar and remained in San Antonio de Béxar afterward as captain and commander of the Greys under Lt. Col. James C. Neill. Blazeby died in the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

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Miles DeForest Andross, Alamo defender, was born 1809 in Vermont. He took part in the Siege of Béxar, became ill afterwards, and remained in Béxar as part of Lt. Col. James Clinton Neill’s command. Andross served in the Alamo garrison as part of Capt. William Blazeby’s infantry company. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

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Freeman H.K. Day, Alamo defender, was born in 1806. He took part in the Siege of Béxar and later served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Capt. Robert White’s Infantry company, the Béxar Guards. Day died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

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