The view of the Alamo represented in this 1850 lithograph is based upon an original watercolor made in 1846-1848 by Sgt. Edward Everett of the First Regiment of Illinois Volunteers during the U.S. War with Mexico. It depicts the ruins of the Alamo mission church during its use as a U.S. Army depot and before a scroll-like pediment to the facade was added. Everett made the sketch to illustrate a report detailing a march into northern Mexico by troops under General John E. Wool, who served as Taylor's aide-de-camp at the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847. Everett's original watercolor is now in the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. See Richard Eighme Ahlborn, The San Antonio Missions: Edward Everett and the American Occupation, 1847 (Amon Carter Museum, 1985).
