[4] Mrs. Alexander Gordon.—M. R. A.
[5] William Warren Chapman was brevetted major for gallant conduct in the battle of Buena Vista, and died in 1859.
[6] Travels in the Interior of North America, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied (London, 1843). Reprinted in Thwaites's Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (Cleveland, 1905).
[7] Major Benjamin William Brice served through the Civil War in the paymaster's department and became a major general at its close.
[8] The mesquit or mesquite is a tree, resembling the locust, of which there are several species in Mexico and the southwestern part of the United States.
[9] Camp Ringgold was an American military post below Rio Grande City. Davis's rancho, mentioned later, was half a mile above Camp Ringgold.
[10] Joseph Hatch La Motte, brevetted a major for gallant conduct at Monterey, resigned from the service in 1846 and died in 1888.
[11] China is located on the Rio San Juan about fifty miles from the Rio Grande.
[12] Maguey is the Spanish name for the century plant.
[13] Col. John C. Hays, the Texas ranger and Indian fighter, who won a national reputation at the siege of Monterey. He went to California in 1849, became first sheriff of San Francisco and afterward United States surveyor-general for California.