The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 58, July 1954 - April, 1955 Page: 72
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
I should have taken the desperate chances to have killed one or
both of them and got a horse and made a break; but I didn't
want to start until night.
So that night I worked my way down to Brazos de Santiago.
I heard a fellow riding up the road in a full run, and the horse
evidently either scented me or saw me, so I jumped by the side
of the road and cocked my pistol, intending when he came up
to shoot him and get his horse if I could; but he suspicioned
something and turned off the road and went around, so I went
on and joined Taylor that evening, and the third day after that
we had a fight at Palo Alto; whipped [Mariano] Arista there.
They killed quite a number of our soldiers there; they killed
[Samuel] Ringgold. He was killed at Palo Alto. The next day
the fight was Resaca de la Palma. There we took [Francisco]
Mejia prisoner-this man that refused to execute the Mier pris-
oners. Our company captured him right on his cannon-a gallant
fellow, too. They released him or exchanged him right away,
though. Taylor wouldn't keep him. They then went into Fort
Brown and the Mexican troops evacuated Matamoros. He re-
mained there on this side, but had troops also in the city of
Matamoros. From there we went on and fought them. We stayed
there several months, getting supplies and everything; went on
and had a big fight at Monterrey.
Old General Taylor camped at headquarters at Walnut Springs,
a beautiful place this side of Monterrey. After he camped there
took Monterrey and whipped the Mexicans there and routed
them; had two or three days' fight, I forget now, two or three
days. You know we had to dig through the walls to get to them,
particularly the Texas Rangers; they had two regiments then,
Jack Hays' regiment and [J. E.] Woods' regiment, and you know
after they took the heights, Bishops' Castle, we took that under
General [J. W.] Worth, and the Texas Rangers, we carried that
and fought them all the way down, and finally dismounted and
would get in from one adobe house to another, you know, just
dig through the walls, soft, you know, and finally the Mexicans
retreated.
The old fellow remarked, "Them Texas troops are the damndest
troops in the world; we can't do without them in a fight, and we
can't do anything with them out of a fight." There was no disci-
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