MAJOR-GENERAL SCOTT._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

H. L. SCOTT,

Act’g Ass’t Adj. Gen.

“Well, boy,” said Hannibal, when he and Jerry got together after

dismissal, “you heard those orders. Maybe the war’s not ended for

General Scott, but it’s ended for me. I want to rest up.”

“It’s ended for Pompey, too, all right,” Jerry added. “He’s still

crying about Lieutenant Smith. Says he’s lost his ‘offercer,’ and he

wants to go home.”

“Yes,” Hannibal mused. “And the war’s been ended for Lieutenant Smith

and a lot of good men before him. That’s the way. War costs.”

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 · 第 80 / 81 题