outside the walls of the fort, with the wounded Mex- ican officers, in whose company I left the battle field. Ry apparent sympathy ancl good attention to their wounds, I obtained from them expressions of friend- ship and confidence. They often spoke to me of going with them to Mex- ico, and li,·ing with them, not as a prisoner, but as a friend. Relying a little on these testimonies of friend- ship, I requested that my friend, Capt. John S. Brooks, who had broken his thigh in the engagement, might be brought into the same room, that I might pay more attention to his wound. The request was granted, and he, when he arrived, after having lain in an open cart in the prairie without food or other refreshment for thrP.e days, was permitted to be placed by the door, upon the hard ground. I also ventured to ask, that a servant might be sent into the prairie to collect some grass to make a bed for him; and thoui?h I offered all my money, which amounted to more than one hundred dollars, which I happened not to have about me when I was robbed, it was not granted. They know a much easier way of getting my money, which they afterward obtained. Our whole time (the surgeons) was taken up in dress- ing the Mexican wounded. All our medicines, surgical in~trurnents and bandages were taken from us; and none of our soldiers had their wounds dressed, except a few by :Major :Miller. Our treatment during the
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