I started pulling my pictorial references off the shelf to see when the facade (the Alamo has no dome, and as far as I know never did) was added and found, in *Historic Bexar County: An Illustrated History* by Joe Carroll Rust, Bexar County Historical Commission, 2006, both the Harper's drawing and, on the opposite page, a photograph identified as the same location at the same time. I can't tell you anything about the only flag I see, but both pictures are clearly labeled as being of the Plaza de las Islas and not Alamo Plaza at all. I'm not going to do a major turn-out of my sources before lunch, but if this identification is correct - and my memory, which I'd need to check, of how those events went down supports it - the building people are calling the Alamo, and which for all I know the original Harper's caption identified as such, would be intended as San Fernando Cathedral. This also makes sense of Newcomb's scornful remark that all they got right was Carolan's Auction House - I had been wondering why he was satisfied with that, when that building wasn't on Alamo Plaza at all.

Re: Lee, I am positive he wouldn't have surrendered as Twiggs did; for when he came in from Ft. Mason, having been recalled to Washington, he refused point-blank to do so. It's a quick search in my word processing document to find this bit, so here's the notes I took, from *San Antonio Story,* Sam & Bess Woolford, Published by Joske's of Texas as Public Service. 1950. (This general history has many imperfections, but for a popular general overview of the city's history, with lots of hooks for future research, I can recommend it.)

When Lee, on his way to report to Washington, arrived in San Antonio from Ft. Mason on day Twiggs surrendered, said: "Has it come so soon to this?" Told if he joined the Confederacy he'd get transportation for his luggage. Said he owed allegiance to Virginia "but not to any revolutionary government of Texas." Technically he was a prisoner when he left for Washington. His luggage was still at Vance Building when the war ended.