The story goes, as I remember it from the…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

as Vegas. The “Lone star” figured conspicuously in this noted expedition and was a brass sixpounder cast in Springfield, Mass., with a solitary star adorning its breech and was presented by patriotic ladies to the Lone Star Republic, then struggling for liberty and independence. The story goes, as I remember it from the lips of my own cousin who accompanied Ken- dall, that some two weeks after they arrived at Anton Chico the town was surrounded by a Mexican force, and through the base treachery of one of Kendall’s officers his command was compelled to lay down its arms and surrender as prisoners of war to General Armijo, then governor and military chief of New Mexico. All were placed under the escort of Captain Salizar, and the terms of surrender violated by him in barbarous indignities and most tyrannical treat- ment. On their arrival in Santa Fe, General Armijo ordered them south at once, and after a march of 3,000 miles, through Mexico, fur- nished with a meagre half ration, many of these hardy men died from starvation and ex- posure and were thrown on the outside for the wolves and vultures. A remnant of this ill- advised expedition finally reached the famous Castle of Perote, a day’s ride west of the pretty little city of Jalapa, enroute to Vera Cruz and their far off home. In 1848, on the evacuation