Zenas Matthews' 1846 U.S.-Mexico War Diary and Service Papers

palmetto leaves. Today we came into the musqito country the trees are small bunches scattered over the praries giving the appearance at the distance of 1/2 mile of A creek bottom. The Neueces valley has larger timber and fine land The corn at San Patricio is the best we have seen since we left home. Crossed the River and camped at the ferry house The River is about [30?] yards wide and muddy from the [two?] banks. The Irish have settled here since Genl. Taylor's army came to Corpus [shores?] the old town having been destroyed in 36. Tuesday June 2nd 1846 Left [tho?] and went to Corpus Christy 25 miles the [course?] nearly East the country is about the first we have seen The Bay having bluff banks generally sand After we arrived we saw a party of men marching out of town. We went to what was the muster and found that they had 3 men with that they were taking out to whip they having robbed an old man of 12 hundred dollars one got