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Alamo Cenotaph
The Alamo Cenotaph, also known as the Spirit of Sacrifice, is a monument in San Antonio, Texas commemorating the Battle of the Alamo, fought at the adjacent Alamo Mission. The monument was erected in celebration of the centenary of the battle, and bears the names of those known to have fought there on the Texas side.
== History ==
Though there had been previous plans for Alamo monuments, starting in the late nineteenth century, The Alamo Cenotaph was the first such erected in San Antonio. (There had been one previous monument, In Austin, but it was lost in a Capitol fire.) During the 1936 Texas Sesquicentennial celebration, the state of Texas provided $100,000 for the monument, commissioned from local sculptor Pompeo Coppini. San Antonio mayor Maury Maverick held a dedication ceremony on November 11, 1940. The shaft rises sixty feet from its base and is forty feet long and twelve feet wide. The monument was erected in grey Georgia marble and pink Texas granite. It was titled Spirit of Sacrifice and incorporates images of the Alamo garrison leaders and 187 names of known Alamo defenders, derived from the research of historian Amelia Williams. Later research has shown some listed on the cenotaph were not there, and the total of Alamo combatants has risen with newer research.
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