BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA
A
CAMPAIGN IN MEXICO.
BY
“ONE WHO WAS THAR.”
“Variety is the spice of life.”
PHILADELPHIA:
JAMES GIHON.
AND FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS AND COUNTRY MERCHANTS
SOUTH AND WEST.
1850.
PREFACE.
In thus bringing myself before the public as an author, I offer no apology. I make no pretensions to literary merit. The following pages were written in the confusion and inconvenience of camp, with limited sources of information, and without any expectation of future publication. I offer nothing but a faithful description of my own feelings, and of incidents in the life of a volunteer. To such as may be interested in an unvarnished relation of facts, connected with the duties, fatigues and perils of a soldier’s life, I respectfully submit this volume.
B. F. SCRIBNER.