 Weeks after the battle, stories began to circulate that Crockett was among those who surrendered and were executed.A former American slave named Ben had acted as cook for one of Santa Anna's officers, and he maintained that Crockett's body was found in the barracks surrounded by "no less than sixteen Mexican corpses", with Crockett's knife buried in one of them.Yet, in 1955, Jesús Sánchez Garza discovered the memoirs of José Enrique de la Peña, a Mexican officer present at the Battle of the Alamo, and self-published it as "La Rebelión de TexasManuscrito Inédito de 1836 por un Ofical de Santa Anna".