ERRATA.
Since the printing of this book it has come to my knowledge thatcomrade James C. Carleton, secretary of the National Association ofMexican War Veterans of Bedford, Indiana, under-ranks me in age 14days. He was born on the 17th of June, 1832, while I saw the lightfirst on the 3rd of June of the same year. This knocks the conceit outof me as to being the youngest veteran of the Mexican War, and I takemy hat off to my dear young comrade Carleton, late of the 5th RegimentIndiana Volunteers, Colonel Lane, and I am relegated to a back seat.
I hope my dear comrade will live to see his 100th birthday, and that hemay never die till I kill him, and when he is called away at the lasttattoo, may every hair of his head be converted into an electric lightto illumine his march to glory.
COLONEL DANIEL E. HUNGERFORD
(COPYRIGHTED)
CONDENSED HISTORY
of the
Mexican War
and its glorious results
By Hon. WILLIAM McKAY
of the Palmetto Regiment in Mexico, also Reminiscences of the War by
Colonel DANIEL E. HUNGERFORD,
of Rome (Italy), Captain in the 2nd New York Regiment in the Mexican War, and latterly in command of the 36th Regiment New York Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion,
(Father of Mrs. John W. Mackay, of Nevada, now of London)
and Colonel CHAS. J. MURPHY,
of Brussels (Belgium)
the well-known Corn Propagandist, and one of the only two officers who won the Congressional Medal of Honor (a distinction which ranks with the cross of the Legion of Honor of France, and the Victoria Cross of England) in the first general battle of the War, Bull Run, and the youngest survivor now living of the soldiers in the Mexican War.
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HISTORY of the MEXICAN WAR
by the Hon. WILLIAM McKAY
Comrades and welcome Guests:
It has been the custom of veterans of the war with Mexico to celebratethe fall of the capital of that Republic before the prowess of Americansoldiers on the 14th day of September, 1847.
Hence are assembled around this festive board in this magnificent HotelContinental the few veterans of that war whose far-wandering footstepshave brought them to the “elbow-touch” once more on a foreign soil. Wemeet to-night in this splendid capital of France, yet with the radiantfolds of our country’s flag above us, that flag honored of the natio