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

WE REACH THE CAMP. 73
have exceeded one or two thousand.' A brisk march of half
an hour brought us to the left wing of the emcampment,
where we pitched our tents and patiently awaited the arrival
of the remaining battalion of our regiment.
* The village of Camargo probably derives its name from Diego Munos Camargo, a native, and the historian of the celebrated Haskalian tribe, which was
associated with the Spaniards in the conquest of the city of Mexico. Camargo
lived in the latter half of the sixteenth century, was educated in the Catholic faith,
and composed his'" Historia de flascala' inl the Castilian language.