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

324 WE SET OUT TO RETURN TO MONTEREY.
plies; and thirty Texan Rangers, to be employed as scouts
and flankers, we continued our march, and arrived at Camargo without further interruption on the 15th of the month.
At that post we met Colonel Mitchell, Lieutenant-Colonel
Weller, Surgeon Chamberlyn and other officers of our regiment who had just arrived from the United States. The
town of Camargo we found much changed since our former
visit in August of the previous year. It had been fortified
too,-(as the reader, peradventure, knows,) but in such a
bungling manner, as to expose a certain one of Mr. Polk's
generals to the 8us8.icion of incompetency. An extensive
and well-constructed field-work had been built on the west
bank of the Rio San Juan (opposite the town) by the 2d
Ohio regiment, and named in honor of the officer who superintended it —" Fort Major Wall."
On the 20th of March, five days after our arrival at
Camargo, we again entered upon the dry and weary road to
Monterey; with a train of one hundred loaded wagons, and
a force augmented to five hundred men, by the addition of
some companies of the Virginia regiment; a company of
United States Dragoons; and a company of Texan Rangers
under the famous " fustcang " Gray;-the whole column
commanded by Colonel Mitchell, whose wound was sufficiently healed to enable him to take the saddle. Nothing
worthy of notice occurred during our journey until our
arrival, on Sunday, the 28th of March, at the scene of the
massacre between Ramas and Marin, already described.
There Captain Gray and his Rangers separated from the
command, for the purpose, as was said, of obtaining fbrage.