Death of Hon. A. P. Upshur, Secretary of State--Calhoun 30 Appointed--Treaty of Annexation of Texas--Declaration of the State of Massachusetts--Texas Accepts the Resolution of Annexation--Formation of Army of Occupation--Transferred to Maj. S. Ringgold's Battery of Horse Artillery--Officers Sail for Aransas Pass--The Wicked Captain--Becalmed--Cross Bahama Banks--Key West--Out of Drinking Water--Fare on Board Ship--Storm--Aransas Pass--St. Joseph's Island--Maj. Ringgold's Cook--Embark for Corpus Christi--Game and Fish--Horse Racing--White Horse of the Prairies--Trip to San Antonio--The Town--Incidents of the Trip
President of Mexico Resigns, and Paredes Is Elected--Mexican 41 Troops Concentrating at Matamoras--Taylor Marches to the Rio Grande--Rattlesnakes--Mirage--Wild Horses--Taylor Concentrates His Troops at Arroyo, Colo.--Bull Fight--Mexicans Flee--Taylor Goes to Point Isabel--Join Gen. Worth--Field Works--Arrival of Gen. Ampudia--Orders Taylor to Leave--Taylor Declines--Col. Cross Murdered--Lieut. Porter Killed--Gen. Arista Arrives--Declares Hostilities Commenced--Capts. Thornton and Hardee Captured
Arista and His Cavalry--United States Excited--Two Hundred 47 Thousand Men Offer Their Services--Congress Declares "War Existed by the Acts of the Mexican Republic"--Taylor Marches to Point Isabel--Bombardment of Fort Brown--Capts. May and Walker--Taylor Marches for Matamoras--Battle of Palo Alto--Victory--Arista Falls Back to Resaca--Battle of Resaca--Capture of Enemies' Batteries--Capts. May and Ridgely--Gen. La Vega Captured--His Sword Presented to Taylor--Duncan and Ridgely Pursue the Enemy--I Capture La Vega's Aid--Col. McIntosh--Ride over the Field of Palo Alto--Death of Lieuts. Chadburne and Stevens--We Take Possession of Matamoras--Gen. Twiggs Appointed Governor--Twiggs and Jesus Maria--Arrival of Gens. W. O. Butler, Robert Patterson, Pillow, and Others--Promoted to Second Lieutenant--Officers of the Company--March to Camargo--Thence to Monterey--Seralvo--Arrival at Monterey
Monterey--Population--Gen. Ampudia--Gen. Worth--Capture a 61 Fort--Battery in a Hot Place--Bragg's Order Countermanded--Two Long-Haired Texans--Capture the Bishop's Palace--Our Battery Ordered to the East End of the City--Gens. Taylor and Quitman--Street Fighting--Gen. Ampudia Surrenders--Gen. Worth, Gov. Henderson, and Col. Jefferson Davis Commissioners--Enter the City--Dine with a Mexican Gentleman--Death of Ridgely--Hot Springs--Santa Anna President--Victoria Surrenders--Gen. Scott--Vera Cruz--Return to Monterey--Death of Lieut. Richey--Investigation of Richey's Death--Monterey--Saltillo--Agua Nueva--Gen. Wool--Santa Anna Advances--Majs. Borland and Gaines Captured--Taylor Falls Back to Buena Vista--Mexican Army--Am Wounded--The Hacienda--Cavalry Fight with Mexican Lancers--Flag of Truce--Victory--Carried to Saltillo