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1'roiu iL»* Now \ .*rk .spirit «»f thf I iuui*. ,FltO.M Till: ABMV. jh y on '•] f if Arhaunts M untclt;! it jl mm. •( J A f lt;*F t**TFI * I. I)l V' HI i *.« ..... i-nrnti. «h . (Ne if \ i, Mexico, '. 1. 184ii. S IFriend /*.—While vour corrcs-wpondents of tl»c Main army of invasion enrich your columns with glowing accounts of the storming of Monterey* a bulletin from our Division may not he altogether uninteresting, although its exploits as yet are bloodless. Here we are, encircled by the Mexican mountains, after a inarch of nearly liiOO miles on horseback, and yet we hu\ c met no enemy. OfX' *course there is little of interest to detail—for even the news which, from the South, comes travelling slowly towards us, is known to you almost as soon as in our camp. | When this column was assembled at San Antonio, Texas, it was composed of two Regiments of Illinois infantry, commanded by Cols. 11 \a-din and Bjssell, a Battalion of Infantry, composed of three Companies of Regulars and one of Kentucky \ olunteers, and commanded byMaj. Bonneville, two Companies of the First Dragoons, commanded by Capts. Steen and Kustis, and two of the Second, by Bvt. Maj. Beai.l and Cnpt. Blake; ten Companies of Arkansas Mounted Volunteers, commanded bv Col. \ ell, and Capt. Washington's Company of Light Artillery.
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Ottawa Free Trader
Ottawa, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1847
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