Présentation de l'éditeur
The author of the following pages, participating in the enthusiastic feeling that prevailed on the reception of the news from Mexico of the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, was induced to join the volunteers called into service, and left New Orleans as adjutant of one of the regiments of Louisiana volunteers. Soon after his arrival at Brazos St. Jago, becoming dissatisfied with his position, and feeling confident that his regiment would be kept in the rear to garrison the different posts, he resigned his rank, and proceeded to Matamoras, where he joined the company of Texas Rangers, commanded by Capt. Benjamin Mc Culloch, which was detached from Col. Hays sregiment, and kept for scouting service by General Taylor. Long habituated to writing a journal, the author kept up his notes while in Mexico, which he has been induced to give to the public, at the solicitation of his friends, and has thought that their presentation would prove most acceptable in their original form. It is, then, but a simple journal of events, that he offers to the public as they occurred, from the embarkation of his regiment, including the storming of Monterey, up to the time of his return to New Orleans, with an account of the celebrated scouts of Mc Culloch at Buena Vista.
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