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Padre Island, Tex. (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
uns (four eighteen-pounders), erected so as to batter their town, and at the first gun we shall rattle them about their ears in such a manner as will soon silence their fire. I presume you will get my various laconic epistles all in a bunch. I wrote hurriedly every time I could ascertain anybody was going down to Point Isabel. I make the sketch underneath, that you may understand the various names I use. From Corpus Christi, or rather Saint Joseph's, down, there is an island called Padre Island, some one hundred and six miles long, and about two miles wide, which forms inside, with the mainland, the Laguna Madre (which you recollect I was sent last winter to explore). At the foot of this island there is a large bay called the Brazos de Santiago, being at the end of the Laguna Madre. Into this bay there is a passage called the Barre de Santiago, where vessels of nine feet draught can pass, and then six feet of water can be taken up to a point of the mainland, called Point Isabel
Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
people, so that there was no use in my coming, and I might have been of more service at the Tortugas. Survey of the Dry Tortugas Islands off the south coast of Florida, in charge of Major Hartman Bache, of the Topographical Engineers, brother-in-law of Lieutenant Meade. But now that I am here I want to see it out. I find the cluld be, for by the main body of the Army I had been led to believe we were considered a sort of incubus. I have found here many of my old fellow-campaigners in Florida, all of whom have met me most warmly, only regretting I had ever left the service at all. This has been exceedingly gratifying to me. We are here without any nble, only under certain circumstances. General Worth is only a colonel in the infantry (the Eighth Regiment), but in consequence of his meritorious services in Florida he had conferred on him the brevet rank of brigadier-general. Now the question which has agitated the army has been, When does this rank take effect? The laws u
St. Joseph's Island (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
unced to be in perfect order; so be easy on my account. camp at Corpus Christi, Texas, September 18, 1845. I wrote you some days ago, from the Depot at St. Joseph's Island, about twenty-five miles from here, where we were landed from the vessel that brought us from New Orleans. The same day we came up here in a steamboat, andated in the kindest manner by the inhabitants. camp at Corpus Christi, Texas, March 2, 1846. I reached here yesterday, having been detained two days at St. Joseph's Island by bad weather. We got here about eight o'clock in the evening, and I occupied myself from that time till bedtime reading all your sweet letters and those is girl, whom he is most desperately anxious to see, a feeling I can readily appreciate and most sincerely sympathize with. Your friend * * * has been at St. Joseph's Island all the time since we left. Entre nous, his day for field-service is past. He has what the wags call prevaricating veins in his legs, which prevent him fr
Monclova (Coahuila, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 2
insists upon having more wagons and means of transportation furnished him. At the same time he advises the Government to allow him to take Tampico, and to hold the line of 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 from us, and we await her action. This plan of an armed occupation, I, individave put down. The troops as now stationed are as follows: General Wool, with two thousand five hundred men (one thousand five hundred foot and one thousand horse) and eight pieces of artillery, is now at Parras, having been ordered there from Monclova, at which place he was stopped by General Taylor, on account of the armistice. General Worth is at Saltillo, where he will soon have a force of about two thousand five hundred men and eight pieces of artillery. Major General Butler will remain
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
that city. I shall leave here to-night or early to-morrow morning for down the river, and may probably spend a day at Louisville, where I understand that Elizabeth Elizabeth Ingraham, wife of Alfred Ingraham, and sister of Lieutenant Meade. and you to get off my bookcase the Maps of the Stars, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Louisville, Ky., August 23, 1845. I arrived here early this morning, and should have proceeded immediately on, as there were boatf this pestilential hole unharmed. I had a tedious, though, on the whole, a pleasant journey here. I wrote you from Louisville, telling you of my missing a steamboat. The next day I got one, and had very good luck till we got to the mouth of thehat General Taylor has been relying on for his forward movement—namely, the troops from Louisiana, Texas, St. Louis and Louisville—taken at once from him, and he obliged to delay his movements till the twelve-months' men shall arrive here and be sent
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Part 2. Mexican War letters, 1845-1847 To Mrs. George G. Meade: Washington City, D. C., August 15, 1845. I trust you have not placed any fond hopes on seeing me come back from this place. I found on my arrival here this morning that there was nothing to be done but to proceed to the destination assigned me. Since leaving Philadelphia the news is more belligerent from Mexico, and though I have not the slightest fear of any hostilities on the part of the Mexicans, yet the existenceD. C., August 15, 1845. I trust you have not placed any fond hopes on seeing me come back from this place. I found on my arrival here this morning that there was nothing to be done but to proceed to the destination assigned me. Since leaving Philadelphia the news is more belligerent from Mexico, and though I have not the slightest fear of any hostilities on the part of the Mexicans, yet the existence of such reports renders it a point of honor for me to go. From all I can hear (for besides seeing many people who pretend to know, I have met one gentleman who resides at the very place I am going to,) all agree in pronouncing it as healthy a country as any in the world, and if I can only escape New Orleans, that there will be but little danger afterwards. Of course I shall take every precaution at New Orleans, and leave the city as soon as I possibly can, and I really am in hopes that I shal
Havana (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 2
ovinces, with a view to creating an independent confederacy. He is also said to be the firm friend of Santa Anna, General Santa Anna had been President of the Mexican Republic from 1843 to 1845, when, being deposed by Herrera, he embarked for Havana. who is preparing to return to Mexico from his exile at the Havana. All these things render it difficult to say what his course will be on his arrival; but I am inclined to believe if he does accept the command, and finds war inevitable, that hesion, and I do not believe they ever will be taught to take care of themselves, and of course our operations will be proportionately impeded. I came down the river with Captain A. Slidell McKenzie, who came here in a vessel of war, direct from Havana, went to see General Taylor, with whom he remained closeted for some hours, and is now on his way to Washington. It is supposed his mission has some connection with Santa Anna, but upon this point he is silent. He, however, makes public the int
Jalapa (Tabasco, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 2
hy, and I anticipate no serious disease among the troops, here or at Vera Cruz, before June, and long before that time there will either be peace or we shall have Jalapa. Tampico, February 3, 1847. I have been so much occupied in making reconnoissances since I last wrote you, that I have allowed a mail to go off without a letmito, will make its appearance, in which case we shall have to evacuate the place at once; but if we are quick about the matter, we can take the town and march to Jalapa before the end of April, and I have no fears before the month of May. Indeed, the disease does not take the form of an epidemic before July and August; but consiCruz and the castle of San Juan d'ulloa. On April the 8th General Scott began his advance on the city of Mexico, and after defeating the Mexicans at Cerro Gordo, Jalapa, Puebla, Contreras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec he attacked the capital and entered it September 14, 1847. The army occupied the city of Mexico until the treaty
Montemorelos (Nuevo Leon, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 2
e a town with only three hundred soldiers in it, and no artillery, what are they going to do against San Juan de Ulloa? General Taylor will leave in a few days for Victoria, and I shall go with him. I will write you again before I leave. Montemorelos, December 18, 1846. We left Monterey on the 15th instant, and after a pleasant march of three days reached this place yesterday afternoon. The command consisted of about one thousand two hundred regulars, under General Twiggs, and two thoshall get your letters. But I will write to you by every chance. Victoria, Mexico, December 30, 1846. We reached this place yesterday, after a pleasant and agreeable march of some seventeen days. I wrote to you on the 18th instant from Montemorelos, advising you of my having been detached with General Quitman, to come and examine the mountain passes, and that General Taylor, with the main body, had gone to Saltillo to meet Santa Anna, who was said to be advancing. We had quite a peac
Matamoras (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ccounts agree in representing their force at Matamoras as contemptible, and again, they know that aon the left bank of the Rio Grande, opposite Matamoras. It is believed here that this will be effens to enter upon it lightly. camp opposite Matamoras, April 15, 1846. The General has receivedmunitions of war. So that the good people of Matamoras, who are dependent on New Orleans for their Upon this I am at present engaged. camp at Matamoras, May 27, 1846. I have been assiduously enuch at this place from Monterey as we did at Matamoras, from all I can learn. They appear to have ber of troops they have, than we did when at Matamoras, three hundred miles distant. I have taken ethe Corps of Engineers, with whom I lived at Matamoras, and a Lieutenant Pope, of my own corps. Wefrom Robert McLane, saying he had arrived at Matamoras, bearer of despatches to the General, which gligence of the postmasters between here and Matamoras, who seem to do just as they please about fo[35 more...]
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