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

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throu-gh the camnp, and splashed across the stream, not pausing for exf leanation, in his anxiety to place as mlany troops
as possible between himself and the dreaded pursuer.
Our druimmers immediately beat "'to the color, "' and the
compllanies ran quickly into line. Those who had heretofore
complained of their tedious position in the rear, then
rejoiced at being in the post of honor. All were anxious for
an encounter with the much talked of Canales, the lBayard
of thie Greasers, and every eye was turned in the direction
whence the-l flying Aiexican had come. Soon the tramp of
horses, andc the clatter of armns, informed us that a large
mounted tirce was rapidly approaching. A few nmoments of
anxious interest and unbroken silence ensued, terminating'
noIt as all expected, in the shouts of angry defiance that
-ung upon every tongue, but in cheers of friendly welcome,
as the advancing party was recognized to be the Texan reginments of' Colonels I-lays and Woods. They passed us at a
rapid trot, to gain their position in the columnvI. The terrified
Mexican, not knowing that the principal part of our cavalry
was a'dvancing on the lower or China road, had taken Gene'al T-Henderson's brigade for the troopp of Canales, an interview with whom, he, being a muleteer in our service, reasonably supposed would not be very agroeeable just at that
tinme.
orldluary fear with which his name inspired some of the eountry people, and the
ihpelrblolical representations of our letter-writing corps, than to any success as a
z'ccrrdilft. As, for a long time after our arrival in the country, we had only Ieard
(J/ him, and alm1ost of'himn alone, I had begun to regard Senor Canales as a "mla
in buckhranm," and every Mexican account of his audacity and courage as a mere
Inyth.
* Thec Jiglul to lirm by battatlion,