![Colonel Crockett, depicted here in a John Gadsby Chapman painting, was the best known of the Tennessee Mounted Volunteers, but 16 others joined him at the Alamo.](https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Crockett2.png)
Colonel Crockett, depicted here in a John Gadsby Chapman painting, was the best known of the Tennessee Mounted Volunteers, but 16 others joined him at the Alamo. (Getty Images.)
Colonel Crockett, depicted here in a John Gadsby Chapman painting, was the best known of the Tennessee Mounted Volunteers, but 16 others joined him at the Alamo. (Getty Images.)