Excerpt from Our Army at Monterey: A Correct Account of the Proceedings and Events Which Occurred to the "Army of Occupation" Under the Command of Major General Taylor, From the Time of Leaving Matamoros to the Surrender of Monterey The publication of 46 Our Army on the Rio Grande, sug gested to the author to continue the history of the campaign. The present volume records the most important events up to the capitulation of Monterey. Every effort has been made to Obtain the most authentic materials; and the author is under obligations to many officers of the army for items of interest. The official reports appended will form the best collateral evi dence of the truthfulness of the details in the description of the battle, and to them the author particularly refers the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.