Then Again: Few remember Vermonter at the Alamo

The name of Vermonter Mills Andross is among those commemorated on a monument that stands beside the Alamo in San Antonio. Wiki Commons photo(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.)
Mills Andross could be forgiven if at some point he wondered what he was doing in Texas, so far from his childhood home in Vermont. If that moment came, it might have been on Feb. 23, 1836, when a Mexican cavalry unit rode into view. The horsemen were the vanguard of a much la