The real America in romance, with reading courses : being a complete and authentic history of America from the time of Columbus to the present day . ISTA. I.) the division of General Wool; and of these onlyfive hundred were regulars. Like a true soldierTaylor, though greatly mortified, instantly obeyedthe chiefs order. At that time Santa Anna had gathered an armyof twenty thousand men atSan Luis Potosi. In Decem-ber, this crafty Mexicanhad been elected provisionalpresident of Mexico, andhis followers were full ofenthusiasm when, on the 1stof February, he began amarch toward Saltillo, withthe a
The real America in romance, with reading courses : being a complete and authentic history of America from the time of Columbus to the present day . ISTA. I.) the division of General Wool; and of these onlyfive hundred were regulars. Like a true soldierTaylor, though greatly mortified, instantly obeyedthe chiefs order. At that time Santa Anna had gathered an armyof twenty thousand men atSan Luis Potosi. In Decem-ber, this crafty Mexicanhad been elected provisionalpresident of Mexico, andhis followers were full ofenthusiasm when, on the 1stof February, he began amarch toward Saltillo, withthe avowed intention ofdriving the Americans be-yond the Rio Grande. Gen-eral Wool, at Saltillo, hadkept his commander advisedof the movements of Santa Anna, and when Taylorwas assured that the Mexicans were really marchingagainst him, he resolved, weak as he was in num-bers, to fight them. On the 31st of January, heleft Monterey with all his troops, and reached Sal-tillo on the 2d of February- He pushed on toAgua Nueva, twenty miles south of Saltillo, onthe San Luis Potosi road, and encamped until the21st, when he fell back to Augustina, a narrow. Gen. Winfield Scott. 216 HUMBLED PRIDE. defile in the mountains facing the estate of BuenaVista, and there encamped in order of battle toawait the approach of Santa Anna. Captain Arthur Stevens had remained with Gen-eral Taylor though a part of his regiment had beenordered to Vera Cruz, and he was expected soon tojoin it. The young American was very muchconcerned about the young Mexican who had savedhis life, and whose sister he had escorted beyondthe lines. Now Arthur would not have admittedit, yet he was exceedingly interested in the had only caught a glimpse of her face, butthat glimpse, that passing glance, as her carriagewhirled by, forever fixed in his mind a bright,celestial vision, a fairy image, indescribably beau-tiful. He had heard her voice but once, as shesaid an Adios to her brother; but the recollec-tion of that
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