of Mexico by the army of the United States, the…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

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 of Mexico by the army of the United States, the writer saw in the mote of the castle a plain, limestone monument, marking the spot where six of Kendall’s most violent men had been shot by order of a court martial as ring leaders of the invasion of Mexican territory.The bright little “Lone Star” gun was kept by General Armijo at Santa Fe as a great trophy, until the Mexican war of 1846, and on the advance of Gen. Stephen W. Kearney at the Puertecito of Las Vegas, the muzzle of this “Plymouth gun” was directed in anger against its own people. Here it fell again into the hands of “Los Gringos,” but in a dismantled condition. Gen. Kearney captured Santa Fe and after a short rest passed on to California and the fol- lowing year Col. Sterling Price, in command of the U. S. forces of New Mexico, advanced south- ward to Chihuahua and in one of his light batteries was the “lone Star of Texas.” At Santa Cruz de Rosales, the last battle fought in the Mexican war, it did some sharp work as an attachment to Lieut. John Lore’s battery against the forces of General Trias.