Alamo Soldier: the Story of Peaceful Mitchell

Austin: Eakin Press, 1976. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 158pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and a half-shade faded on spine panel, Very Good. A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte "Peaceful" Mitchell, a seventeen-year old Tennesseean in the Army of Texas in 1836, one of thirteen men in Davy Crocket's Tennessee Volunteers who died defending the "Palisade" wall of the Alamo. Written for a young adult audience; in the publisher's "Stories for Young Americans" series. (Inventory #: 62184)