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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
rth and Wool have concentrated at Saltillo, and all the volunteers from the Rio Grande have been brought up, so that there is at present under General Butler's command at that place some six thousand men and eighteen pieces of artillery, ready to receive Santa Anna, should he advance, which I hardly think he will. From Mexico we have but little news. The Congress is occupied in the election of a President, and has not yet acted on the proposition of peace. I have seen papers to the 19th of December from the City of Mexico. Their tone is war to the last, but at the same time despondent; and instead of driving us across the Sabine, The Sabine River empties into the Gulf of Mexico, sixty miles above Galveston, and is the eastern boundary line of Texas. they talk of their capacity to defend themselves at San Luis and Tula. I understand that the provisional President, Salus, in his message to the Congress, says that the Government is for prosecuting the war vigorously, but it is