Show I 1 IT WAS IN 1817 1847 I 1 3 forty four years ago yesterday of invading american soldiers under zachary taylor old rough 11 I 1 I 1 r a and ready totally routed an army II 11 I 1 of oooo mexicans commanded by i 1 santa anna who bad the adv advantage altage antage 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 of on oa their own superb exhibition of american military 17 I 1 skill and individual courage too took k I 1 place at buena buona viela vista the victory is is I 1 the more remarkable from the fact k that the considerable majority of taylors 11 men had never before been under I 1 4 fire while santa anna had the I 1 flower of his army one of old J rough and reades Re adys raw youngsters who demonstrated that they were on a an average each equal to four gromi greasers I 1 was the captain oi of co G 2nd and indiana regiment of volunteers J this thi s officer was probably the I 1 youngest of his rank in the army and this was his first battle all day long as the tide of battle ebbed and flowed I 1 our captain was urging his associate I 1 I 1 volunteers to do nobly the work of conquest during one long floice hour be and his company were numbered with a little band of americans led by joe lane into the very 41 face of mexicans whose combined assault they withstood until dislodged I 1 I 1 by the enfilading fire cf santa k I 1 Ail annas lifts artillery lie was in plain eight of old zachary and the famous white boree at the ni ciment ment when I 1 captain bragg was advised to gie give them a little more grape lie ile was happily not one of the sainted of our troops who were slain and who mingled their life blood with that of the 2000 mexicans I 1 who fell under american prowess i for if he had bad been among the ea slaughtered a u gli indiana would not have g given iven to the union cause her old war clorse general nathan kimball I 1 lie ile was the young captain of volunteers who did his part to win this territory where now we dwell from mexico 1 I 1 yesterday the aged general remarked I 1 to this writer 1 I feel that my inter interest pst in in utah dates back to a very early time in her history |