Into Mexico with General Scott / When attached to the Fourth United States Infantry, Division of Major-General William J. Worth, Corps of the famous Major-General Winfield Scott, known as Old Fuss and Feathers, campaign of 1847, lad Jerry Cameron marched and fought beside Second Lieutenant U. S. Grant all the way from Cera Cruz to the City of Mexico, where six thousand American soldiers planted the Stars and Stripes in the midst of one hundred and fifty thousand amazed people

by Edwin L. Sabin

The company officers had bustled in; got the reports from the first sergeants. There were orders.

“Company A, by the left flank! Left—face! For’d—march!”

“Company B, by the left flank! Left—face! For’d—march! Right oblique—march!”

And so on. Thus they all filed out of the barn door into the rain and the darkness, where the regimental officers were waiting.

“By company, into line—march! Left wheel—march! Company—halt! Right—dress!”

“Sure, how can a man right dress when he can’t see?”

“Silence in the ranks!”

“Form platoons—quick—march!”

“Close up on the leading company, captains!”

It was a jumble. Jerry found his place with the rest of the music by guesswork.