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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)
surprised, knowing the difficulty of selection, that so few mistakes were made. camp near Marin, Mexico, September 17, 1846. I have had no opportunity to write to you since the date of my last ld be just in front of it, and we preserved this order of march up to our arrival at this place, Marin. This little town, of some two thousand inhabitants, we found entirely deserted but by a few od that the cavalry we had seen were under the command of General Towejon, who had a thousand at Marin, and some five hundred advanced near Papa-Gallos, where we first saw them, and that they were a corps of observation, and also were driving the people before them and out of the way. In Marin they ordered every one out of the town, and those who were unable to move their property, they turned t the reports were all in. It was found the town was most strongly fortified in the direction of Marin, and weak in that of Saltillo. In consequence, on the morning of the twentieth, while I was eng