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

100 lashes and the others 50 a piece Wednesday 3rd 1846 Corpus Christy had a commanding view from the bluff The Town is situated on the beach under the bluff Called on Mr and Mrs Johnson all well Johnson is goint to Port Isabella. A man was knocked in the head last night of which wou nd he died this morning They are in pursuit of the murderer The Gen and staff are [?] and start this morning the other troops have gone. We drew our ration for our selves and horses corn & oats coffee sugar pork bread candles soap beans and ginger Our corn and oats that we could not pack we sold for 8 1/2 $ Their [?] of [?] [ordered?] draw 8 days rations. Thursday 4th 1846 This morning we took our horses out to grase at eleven oclock Came in after dinner Mr Booth Hays and myself borrowed Mr Johnsons Sail Boat this afternoon and took a pleasant sail on the Bay. The wind being