Since the printing of this book it has come to my knowledge that
comrade James C. Carleton, secretary of the National Association of
Mexican War Veterans of Bedford, Indiana, under-ranks me in age 14
days. He was born on the 17th of June, 1832, while I saw the light
first on the 3rd of June of the same year. This knocks the conceit out
of me as to being the youngest veteran of the Mexican War, and I take
my hat off to my dear young comrade Carleton, late of the 5th Regiment
Indiana Volunteers, Colonel Lane, and I am relegated to a back seat.
I hope my dear comrade will live to see his 100th birthday, and that he
may never die till I kill him, and when he is called away at the last
tattoo, may every hair of his head be converted into an electric light
to illumine his march to glory.
_CJMurphy_
[Illustration: COLONEL DANIEL E. HUNGERFORD]
(COPYRIGHTED)
CONDENSED HISTORY
of the
Mexican War
and its glorious results
By Hon. WILLIAM McKAY
of the Palmetto Regiment in Mexico, also Reminiscences
of the War by
Colonel DANIEL E. HUNGERFORD,
of Rome (Italy), Captain in the 2nd New York Regiment
in the Mexican War, and latterly in command of the
36th Regiment New York Volunteers in the War
of the Rebellion,
(Father of Mrs. John W. Mackay, of Nevada, now of London)
and Colonel CHAS. J. MURPHY,
of Brussels (Belgium)
the well-known Corn Propagandist, and one of the only two
officers who won the Congressional Medal of Honor (a distinction
which ranks with the cross of the Legion of Honor of France,
and the Victoria Cross of England) in the first general battle of
the War, Bull Run, and the youngest survivor now living of
the soldiers in the Mexican War.
Compiled and Published
by JOHN E. COWAN, 122, West 93rd Street, New York