Isaac Millsaps

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Isaac Millsaps (also spelled Milsaps in some records) (ca. 1795 – March 6, 1836) was one of the defenders killed at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.

Millsaps was a veteran of the War of 1812, having served in the East Tennessee Militia. By 1836 a resident of Gonzales, Texas, he was serving as a private and a rifleman in the Gonzales Rangers, a group of volunteers that arrived in the Alamo after it was beseiged by the Mexican Army under Santa Anna.

A letter supposedly authored by Millsaps from the Alamo has been the subject of persistent controversy among historians. Written to his wife Mary, the note details the last moments of the defenders inside the compound. He was killed, along with the majority of the defenders, in a pre-dawn attack on March 6.

Actor Turk Pipkin portrayed Millsaps in the 2004 film The Alamo.