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25, 30, 39,40. 65Id., gen. orders 93, July 30. Ewing, diary, Aug, 2t} 31, 1846. 76García to Parrodi, Aug 10. Grant, Mems., i, 104. 267Memo. [apparently from Maj. Smith]. Kenly, Md. Vol, 61 — 4. French, Two Wars, 59. Niles, Sept, 5, p. 1; 19, p, 56. Sanders, June 5 in Ho. 60; 30. 1, p. 551. (Mier) 69Vinton to Lee, Aug. 1; Smith, To Mexico, 66; Green, Journal, 82.

17. At Camargo. 99Gov. Tamaul, to Tampico ayunt., July 23. 80Gov, N. León, July 2, 1846. Picayune, Aug, 1, 6, 9, 14, 15; Sept. 12. Smith, Remins., 35. Sanders, June 5 in Ho. 60; 30, 1, p. 551. McClellan, diary. Henshaw narrative. Meade, Letters, i, 119, 121. Ewing. diary, Aug, 3laSept. 19. Robertson, Remins, 109 — 11. Wash. Union, Sept. 14; Oct. 5. Bishop, Journal, 185Worth to Duncan, July 30. (Worth) Wilhelm, Eighth Inf., ii, 278; Special orders 72 in Ho. 60; 30, 1, p. 529; 61W. to adj. gem, May 9; 61Marcy to W., May 11, Henry, Camp. Sketches, 121, 152 — 4. Giddings, Sketches, 83. Taylor, Letters (Bixby), 42,176. Trans. Ills. State Hist. Son, 1906, pp. 176*7, Vedette, ix, no. 10. Tennery, diary, Oct. 28. 139Campbell to D. C., Aug. 28. Nashville Union, Oct. 17. Niles, Sept. 12, p. 23; Jan. 2, 1847, p. 286. 117Pillow to wife, Sep. 6; Dec. 24. Sedgwick, Corres, i, 13, 30. 169Taylor to Crittenden, Sept. 1, 1845. (Mier) Ho. 6Q; 30, l, p. 1180 (Taylor).

Camargo Was the proper place for Taylor's dépôt, but no Americans were needed there except the quartermaster's force and a guard of regulars. For these there was sufficient elevated ground. The regulars occupied this ground (Picayune, Aug. 15), and suffered comparatively little; but we know enough of the conditions existing at Camargo to pronounce the place unfit for the number of men encamped there.

18. May 9 Paredes decided that all the American consuls should cease to exercise their functions, and four days later orders were issued that wherever a U, S. war vessel should appear, the Americans should embark or go twenty leagues into the interior. Mexican consuls in the United States were soon directed to close their offices. 52B. E. Green, Apr. 25, 1844: Tornel "hates us with a most envenomed spite," 52Ellis, Sept. 20, 1839: Tornel shows a. bitter and unrelenting hostility toward the United States.

19. Feb. 4, 1846, El Tiempo, the favorite journal of Paredes, had said: "We are not a people of traders and adventurers, the scum and dregs of all countries, whose only mission is to rob the Indians of their land and then seize the fertile regions opened to Civilization by the Spanish race." June 13 La Esperanza, of Tampico, close to the field of war, printed the Address of a Patriotic Junta [Committee] to raise funds for the campaign, which used the following language about the Americans: "People with out morality, composed of the scum of all nations; people without honesty, who count their bankruptcies by the numberless number of their enterprises; people without religion, who tolerate all beliefs and mock at the most sacred things; people for whom probity is not a virtue, who value money and know nothing of glory, a monstrous collection of the most heterogeneous elements united by the double bond of crime and fear, etc."

20. Parades, Mexico and the war. (Paredes' appearance) Portrait, City Hall, Mexico; Aquila del Norte, Mar. 18 London Times, Mar. 13, 1846. Bankhead, nos. 13, 45, 72, 92, 100, 1846. 52Slidell, Feb. 6, 17. Mexico á través, iv, 567-8. Dublán, Legislación, v, 134-6. Apuntes, 68. Diarío, May 18; June 2, 7, 12, 17, 26 — 30; July 2, 4, 6, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30. Memoria de. . . Relaciones, 1846. Bustamante, Nuevo Bernal,