Scott Huddleston / San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 4 of7 A marker on the outside wall of San Fernando Cathedral says remains of Alamo Heroes are entombed inside the cathedral near the entrance. The locations of the pyres have been described in personal accounts but have not been archaeologically confirmed. Scott Huddleston / San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 3 of7 A marble plaque in the 600 block of East Commerce Street, next to a street-level pedestrian bridge over the River Walk and across the street from the Shops at Rivercenter mall parking garage, marks the general area where two funeral pyres are believed to have burned after the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. William Luther / San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 2 ofs Alamo Cenotaph, a work by artist Pompeo Coppini titled 'The Spirit of Sacrifice,' includes sculpted images of flames and text referencing “fire that burned their bodies.” But a 1999 report by UTSA archaeologists said the Cenotaph's location is likely 'the only place that can safely be eliminated from contention' as a site of a funeral pyre after the 1836 battle.

Historical experts have said the remains are not likely Alamo defenders, but possibly fallen participants of the 1813 Battle of Rosillo. Drossaerts, based on late recollections of Juan Seguin.

That belief was advanced by Archbishop Arthur J.

1 of7 It has been said that the sarcophagus in the entrance at the San Fernando Cathedral contains the remains of defenders of the Alamo whose bodies were burned after the 1836 battle.

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