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Anna's word for it, and we all might prepare, and a few days
afterwards an order came to the governor of the castle that we
were to be released on the 16th of September, and so he then
gave us the privilege of the place, and on the 16th we were re-
leased," and came through to Vera Cruz, and there the English
Consul had received money-no we came on to Jalapa; there we
had orders from the British Consul to remain there, that the
yellow fever was raging in Vera Cruz, and to remain there, and
he sent us some money that he had received from the Texas gov-
ernment to support us while we were there. You know it didn't
cost much, so we remained there until such time as he succeeded
in getting a vessel and everything, and came down to Vera Cruz,
and we shipped back to New Orleans. ...
Now, when the Mexican war broke out, you were not in that,
were you, or were you in it? I was all the way through it, sir.
Started in with [Zachary] Taylor at Corpus Christi, and came
out with him in 1847. I went out there with General Taylor from
Corpus Christi, and when we got to little Colorado, found the
Mexicans were collecting pretty strong in front of us, and Captain
Sam Walker overtook us, and he had a few men, and he wanted
to recruit-raise a spy company-and we joined. Morris Simons
and myself were in with Ferguson, furnishing cattle for Twiggs,12
under Captain Ferguson, who had the contract, and Simons was
furnishing the infantry, and we went along, and I used to ride
along with old Twiggs a good deal; was full of gab, and telling
him romantic stories and the old fellow would send for me to
ride with him, and I would be with him for a whole day together,
telling him cock-and-bull stories about roping mustangs and run-
ning wild cattle, and occasionally a love story. But I furnished
him beef.
I recollect when we got to the Rio Colorado Simons had run
out of cattle, and he came up to me to get some cattle of me. We
were both boys, but Ferguson was the main manager. All that
we had to do was to herd and keep the cattle along with the com-
mand. They killed, themselves-had their butchers-and old
11Green states that each prisoner released was given one dollar "to bear his
expenses to Texas." Ibid., 381. Green had escaped earlier from the prison.
12Colonel D. E. Twiggs commanded the Second Dragoons. Justin H. Smith, The
War with Mexico (2 vols.; New York, 1919), I, 143-
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