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Schuylkill (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ve most uncomfortably. She is in a tent, living in the roughest manner, and has not even, I think, a female attendant. I have seen her once or twice. She appears contented and is, comparatively speaking, comfortably fixed; but she is entirely out of place. October 11, 1845. The mail will leave early to-morrow morning, by a steamer for New Orleans; so that in twelve days you will receive this. How much I wish I could accompany it. What joy to be once more at the northeast corner of Schuylkill Seventh and Spruce Streets; but, alas, it is useless to be speculating on impossibilities! Here I am, and here I must stay, and the best thing I can do is to be cheerful and contented. My health, thank God, is excellent, and as long as it so continues I shall be reconciled. I would have preferred going with Major Bache; but I should have been much more exposed, and my life in greater danger from disease than now; though the certainty of returning to you, and having an office in Philadel
Paris, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
est. What would have to be paid for it will cover the expenses of the war, and indeed Mexico may be forced to pay the expenses herself. If some such reason has not influenced the President, why should he insist on Mr. Slidell's being received as a Minister Plenipotentiary, when he was repeatedly assured by the Mexicans they would only receive a Commissioner? If he at heart desired peace, there was nothing undignified in making him a Commissioner. The treaties of Ghent, and that of ‘83 in Paris, were made by Commissioners, and it is usual, upon renewing intercourse, or after wars, to have Commissioners to arrange the preliminaries, and even treaties, and then send your Ministers, for it may happen the Commissioners may not agree, and recourse must again be had to arms. The requiring Mr. Slidell to insist on being received as Minister was a sad blunder of Mr. Polk's, if he desired peace; but my impression is he desires war. The question now is, What will the United States do? I t
Point Isabel (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ter advancing to within a short distance of Point Isabel and finding that the Mexicans had deserted taken up to a point of the mainland, called Point Isabel, upon which there is a small village called officers arrived in camp this morning from Point Isabel, among them young George Harrison Hare. Thd be considered only as enemies. When near Point Isabel he was met by a civil deputation, who said e cannot seek them. camp at the Frontone, Point Isabel, May 5, 1846. I have at length most glor. I never entertained any apprehension for Point Isabel. At first I considered General Taylor had 1st instant, when we left our camp to go to Point Isabel, we had in camp ten days supplies for the w say John is safe and sound, that he was at Point Isabel, attached to Major Munroe's Company, but on and we were detained nine days, sending to Point Isabel after planks to make flats, and even then, nite termination to this state of things. Point Isabel, July 24, 1846. Since I last wrote you ([14 more...]
Ghent (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
efer acquiring it by conquest. What would have to be paid for it will cover the expenses of the war, and indeed Mexico may be forced to pay the expenses herself. If some such reason has not influenced the President, why should he insist on Mr. Slidell's being received as a Minister Plenipotentiary, when he was repeatedly assured by the Mexicans they would only receive a Commissioner? If he at heart desired peace, there was nothing undignified in making him a Commissioner. The treaties of Ghent, and that of ‘83 in Paris, were made by Commissioners, and it is usual, upon renewing intercourse, or after wars, to have Commissioners to arrange the preliminaries, and even treaties, and then send your Ministers, for it may happen the Commissioners may not agree, and recourse must again be had to arms. The requiring Mr. Slidell to insist on being received as Minister was a sad blunder of Mr. Polk's, if he desired peace; but my impression is he desires war. The question now is, What will
Alabaha River (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
r letter, referring to the same. Of course, I feel complimented and gratified at any notice being taken of my services, and am truly grateful to your good father for the exertion of his good offices on my behalf. I will soon see him, however, and return my thanks in person. On board the mail steamer, in the River Potomac, April 20, 1847. We are within a few miles of Washington, and I write these few lines to inform you of my safe arrival thus far. Owing to our taking a boat on the Alabama River, instead of the mail coach from Mobile, we lost a day, and I remained a day in Charleston, to transact some business with individuals residing there. This has put me back two days, so that I shall not see you, as I hoped, on the 20th. To-morrow I must remain in Washington, to report to Colonel Abert and settle some accounts at the Department. If all things go right, I hope to leave the next day for Philadelphia, in which case you may look for me to dinner. I may come on in the night
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
oodly number, are now satisfied, and are now going home. Among them was Bailie Peyton, who was an attache to General Worth. Owing to this I saw a great deal of him, and have been much pleased with his wit and humor under the most trying circumstances. We would often express to each other what enjoyment Mr. Wise Henry A. Wise, brother-in-law of Mrs. Meade, afterward Governor of Virginia. would have here, and you can write to Mr. Wise and tell him we all, and Colonel Campbell also, of Tennessee (a very handsome fellow, who was the first to enter the enemy's batteries) thought of him. He was in Congress at the same time with Mr. Wise and Peyton. You will doubtless see the official reports, and the newspapers will be filled with anecdotes of the various attacks. I hope the people of the country will appreciate what we have done, and for myself individually, if I get the approbation of those in whose hearts I wish to live, it is all that I ask. I do not think I mentioned in t
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
n Cram is still confined to his bed, though the doctor thinks him decidedly better. Mr. Wood's fever has been broken, and he has regained strength enough to walk about, and has obtained sick leave of two months. He will leave in a few days for Kentucky, his home, and return here at the end of his leave if he should be well enough. The papers from New Orleans bring us the inaugural address of the new President of Mexico, Herrera, in which he gives up the whole affair, says the usurped territ telling them the time for action has arrived, and they are to march, to drive us from the Rio Grande, or die. His advance of two thousand cavalry has captured a scouting party of General Taylor's, consisting of five officers and sixty-five men, Kentucky and Arkansas cavalry, at a place about forty miles from Saltillo. Great anxiety is felt for our old and much-loved commander, and a feeling of indignation against the Government for stripping him of all his force is prevalent throughout the a
Linares (Nuevo Leon, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 2
We have recent intelligence to-day from the Mexican army. It was obliged, from fatigue and other causes, to halt at Linares, a small town at the foot of the Sierra Madre, about half-way between Tampico and Monterey. Here an epidemic, in the se country reconnoitered in the direction of San Luis Potosi, he will return here, and go down to Tampico (by the road of Linares and Victoria), in time to meet General Patterson. I shall accompany General Taylor to Saltillo, and return with him, m this place, and one hundred from Tampico. In going down this road he will take possession of the towns of Caideretta, Linares and others, examine the passes through the mountains, of which there are said to be several, though only mulepaths, and sketch in my last letter indicated to you), over a rich plain, well cultivated and thickly settled. We expect to reach Linares, in two days marching, tomorrow, and it will then take us some eight days to go to Victoria. From Victoria I may go dow
France (France) (search for this): chapter 2
ctly healthy. God grant it may continue so. Nothing new in Mexican affairs, which I still think is a mere bubble to induce the offer of mediation from England or France, and thus give them (Mexico) a chance to creep out of an awkward position. New Orleans, Sept. 4, 1845. I arrived here to-day about 2 P. M., very well in heaive a commissioner to settle the present dispute; afterward sent as a commissioner by the Confederate States Government, with James M. Mason, to Great Britain and France, and captured on the British steamer Trent in 1861. as a Minister Plenipotentiary, though it is willing to receive him as an agent simply. This will demand some war? Well, it has so turned out. Private letters from Paredes to him have been found among his papers, in which Paredes blackguards Almonte, says he sent him to France to get rid of him, and speaks of Santa Anna's party, and his measures to put them down. Now, it is notorious Arista was originally opposed to Paredes, and resign
Pala (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
f whom I shall be the second in rank. Four others have been sent, I understand, with Colonel Kearney, from St. Louis to Santa Fe, namely, Emory, Warner, Peck and Abert. This makes eight officers of the corps in the field. I suppose you are awarerom San Antonio to Chihuahua, a large town of fourteen thousand inhabitants, on the highroad from the City of Mexico to Santa Fe, so that the occupation of Monterey, Chihuahua and Santa Fe will give us actual possession of the whole of New Mexico. Santa Fe will give us actual possession of the whole of New Mexico. I have been given to understand at headquarters that there will probably be one or two Topographical Engineers sent to General Wool from this command; in which case I shall certainly be one, for Captain Williams will remain with General Taylor, and the Sierra Madre from Tampico to this place. Then, with General Wool at Monclova and Chihuahua, and General Kearney at Santa Fe and in California, we shall hold military possession of five of Mexico's provinces. Then let her come and take them fro
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