The Alamo Defenders: Green B. Jameson

JAMESON, GREEN B.

(1809-1836)

Born in either Kentucky or Tennessee, Green B. Jameson was the grandson of John Jameson, an early lieutenant governor of Virginia. Jameson, a lawyer, moved to Texas in 1830 and settled in Brazoria.  He took part in the siege of Bexar in 1835, and then remained in Bexar under the command of Lt. Col. James C. Neill as chief engineer of the garrison occupying the town and the Alamo.

Jameson's correspondence with Sam Houston in the weeks before the Alamo siege began gave detailed descriptions of the Alamo's defenses. 

On the first day of the siege, February 23, 1836, Jameson was sent by James Bowie as a messenger to the Mexican forces.

He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

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