Sketches of the campaign in northern Mexico : in eighteen hundred forty-six and seven / by an officer of the First Regiment of Ohio volunteers.

1BUTLE-R S DIVISION LEAVES CERIRALVO. 121
8. Two companies of the Mississippi regiment will be
designated for the garrison of this depot. All sick and disabled men, unfit for the march, will be left behind, under
charge of a medical officer, to be selected for this duty by the
miedical director.
By order of Major General TAYLOR,
Wg. W. S. BLISS,
Assistant Adjutant General.
The small garrison mentionedl, in the last section of the
foregoing orders, was the only one left onl the route. Among
the sick and disabled, about one hundred and fifty in number, who remained at this depot, was the captain of one of
our German companies. We had one Irish and two German
companies in the 1st Ohio regiment. According to Surgeon
Chamberlyn's account, the captain, being sick with pleurisy,
had swallowed in rather hot haste a quantity of mustard,
which had been prescribed as a plaster. Though the condiment thus taken, internally and 2per se, proved as unwholesome as unpalatable, yet it served to season a good joke;
and it was even contended by some that it had saved the
captain's life, inasmuch as his unlucky mistake prevented
him fiom participating in the battle of Mionterey, where his
gallant 1st Lieutenant was slain at the head of his company.
On the 15th of September, the field division of volunteers-General Butler's-marched from Cerralvo, and on the
17th reached -Marin, where the Regulars awaited our arrival.
Nothing of unusual interest occurred between those places.
General Torrejou, with about a thousand horse, was constantly in front of our army, but distrusting his own strength,