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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Mexico, a plain-spoken Buckeye, who had not studied diplomacy in the schools of Metternich and Talleyrand.
The second column, or "Army of the Center," under
General Wool, marched about the same time from San
Antonio, Texas, in the direction of the enemy's State of
Chihuahua, with orders to capture and hold it subject to a
definitive treaty of peace. General Wool, finding no practicable route to Chihuahua, except one by way of the towns
Mlonclova and Parras, which brought him within a few
leagues of Saltillo, was fortunately ordered by General Taylor to abandon his original purpose, and await further orders
at Parras. Though this expedition had thus been defeated
in its object, the long and weary march of Wool's command
had been favorable to the training of the volunteers composing it; and who soon afterward exhibited their discipline
and constancy on the field of Buena Vista.
With the progress and condition of the third column or
"' Army of Occupation," as it continued to be designated,
the reader is already familiar. He has seen it dislodge the
enemy from Monterey, and then quietly encamp in and
around the city, to await the progress of diplomacy during
the armistice. Our government had sent to that of Mexico
a proposition to open negotiations for peace immedliately
after the return of Santa Anna from exile; and had been
briefly -informed, in reply, that the question would be laid
before the new Mexican Congress, which was to assemble
in December. Now if that Congress should consent to treat
for a termination of the existing war, and a peace upon the
basis of the u'ti possidetis should be established, it was