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.