The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers; or, the Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico--1846; including Skirmishes with the Mexicans, and an accurate detail of the Storming of Monterey; also the Daring Scouts at Buena Vista together with anecdotes, incidents, descriptions of country, and sketches of the lives of the celebrated partisan chiefs, Hays, McCulloch, and Walker. Page: 5
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PREFACE.
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 McCulloch, which was detached from Col. Hays's
regiment, 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 aceptable 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 McCulloch at Buena Vista.
We have endeavoured to give a fair and faithful account of
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Reid, Samuel C., Jr. The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers; or, the Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico--1846; including Skirmishes with the Mexicans, and an accurate detail of the Storming of Monterey; also the Daring Scouts at Buena Vista together with anecdotes, incidents, descriptions of country, and sketches of the lives of the celebrated partisan chiefs, Hays, McCulloch, and Walker., book, 1859; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38096/m1/7/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.