{"1": {"fulltext": "o\\n4^^\\n^5^\\nt\\n1^ .^o\\n^v -0-\\n-1\\nV", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "r\\n-T\\n/I.\\n7L^ ^^l^~\\n.^^_7-\\n-j-", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "EPISODES\\nOF\\nTHE MEXICAN WAR.\\nJ[ Jfl^m.\\nDelivered befoi-e the A^ew York Associated Veterans of\\nthe Mexican IVar, at the Lexington Avenue\\nOpe) a Hoi4se, Neia York City,\\non the Thirty-first\\nAnniversary\\nof the\\nCAPTURE OF THE CITY OF MEXICO.\\nBY LT.-COL. GEOthwi^lPA^TEN, U. S. A.\\nNEW YORK:\\nBrentano s Literary Emporium,\\n39 Union Square.\\n1878.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "HIRAM TRUSS, Jr.,\\nBOOK AND JOB PRINTER,\\n15 NEW CHURCH ST.,\\nNEW YORK.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\n^^O the Associated Veterans of the Mexican War, this\\nlittle poem, at whose request it was written, is sub-\\nmitted without comment.\\nTo that class of readers, if any there be, who are more\\ninclined to censure than to extol, the author does not deem\\nit incumbent on him to make any concession, by way of\\nexcuse for thus rushing into print, as he is fully aware\\nthat no apology would suffice to blunt the pen of adverse\\ncriticism or mitigate the poignancy of its sting.\\nIn order to a correct understanding of several little\\nepisodes introduced in the course of the narrative, the reader\\nis referred to the following notes\\nThe Maid of the Rio Grande. In an early part of\\nthe war, a Mexican force, under General Ampudia, having\\nbeen driven by the troops of General Taylor to the border\\nof the Rio Grande, it is said, that the Mexican general, in\\norder to save himself from being taken prisoner, plunged", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Introduction.\\nhead-long into the river and swam to the opposite bank.\\nThe maid of the Rio Grande, alhided to in the text, in\\norder to show her contempt for the Mexican commander\\nand her admiration for the heroic leader of the American\\ntroops, had bestowed upon the more docile of her household\\npets the appellation of Ampudia, and designated the\\nfiercer one as General Taylor.\\nCamargo. The ditch of Camargo was for a long time\\na theme of great merriment among the American forces, the\\nofficer superintending its construction having made the\\nmistake of placing it inside the fortifications.\\nCerro Gordo. Major General James Shields, who\\nwas severely wounded at the battle of Cerio Gordo, was\\npresent at the Opera House on the evening of the delivery\\nof the poem, and officiated as orator.\\nGeneral Santa Anna, having lest a limb in a previous\\nconflict, was provided with an artificial one, a duplicate of\\nwhich, together with his gold-headed cane, was discovered\\nin his carriage, which he had hastily abandont-d in order to\\nexpedite his flight from the battle field of Cerro Gordo.\\nThese articles (the cane and cork leg) were taken in\\ncharge by Colonel Riley, of the 2d Infantry, and subse-\\nquently forwarded to the Mexican general.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Inti odiiction. v\\nTatnall. At the time the American fleet lay off Vera\\nCruz, previous to the investment of the city, Captain Tat-\\nnall, a brave but eccentric Georgian, was seen, one morning,\\nto M eigh anchor and head his little craft (a small gun-\\nboat called the Spit-fire directly for the Castle of San\\nJuan d Uloa, as he, laughingly, said, for the purpose of\\ndrawing the fire of that fortress.\\nHis wishes were amply gratified, as the Ca-tle soon opened\\nupon him with iis heaviest shot and shell. The commander\\nof the fleet, observing the perilous position of the gun-boat,\\ntelegraphed for its immediate i-eturn. Talnall slowly\\nobeyed the order, and strange to say, came out from the\\nfiery shower unharmed. As he passed by the transports, on\\nhis return, he was loudly applauded by the soldiers on board\\nof them, and was heard severely rebuking his crew because\\nnot a single one of them, in conformity with his expressed\\nwishes, would suffer himself to be killed.\\nSan Juan d Uloa. This fortress, during the siege, was\\nheld by General Morelles, who, after a protracted resistance,\\nwas induced to capitulate, it is said, on account of sickness;\\nthe command of the castle having devolved temporarily on\\na subaltern officer. G. W. P.\\nPoughkeepsie, N Y., October jd, i8y8.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "ARGUMENT.\\nIntroduction.\\nAfaid of the Rio Grande and her Pets.\\nDitch of Camargo.\\nCaiiiargo Damsel and htr Gnitar.\\nI/ail Columbia\\nCerro Gordo.\\nGeneral Shields.\\nSanta Anna.\\nParoled Pi isoners.\\nBelle of Jalapa.\\nVera Ci uz.\\nAr??iy Afloat.\\nFreak of Tatnall.\\nThe Landing^\\nDeaths of Vinton and Albertis.\\nThe Siege.\\nThe Surrender.\\nFarewell.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "EPISODES\\n|i? iiiriijait Hhi|.\\nI^ERHAPS it may be thought twere better\\ntaste,\\n(Saving thereby his time from useless waste)\\nFor one to arms accustomed all his days,\\nTo strive for laurels rather than for bays;\\nWhere fields opposing test their struggling\\nmight.\\nTo join the battle than to si)?g the fight.\\nBut called by partial voices to the front.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "S Episodes of\\n(Not such to see as was your former wont)\\nAnd urged to action by the martial muse,\\nWhat had the hapless soldier left to choose?\\nLook with forbearance, generous comrades,\\nthen,\\nOi! him who sheathes the sword to wield\\nthe pen.\\nI sing of war not such as Homer sung\\nWhen verse unwritten flowed from minstrel\\ntongue.\\nTelling how camo about tlie siege of Troy,\\nFrom naughty conduct of a girl and boy.\\nAnd how the Greeks and Trojans were at\\nodds,\\nTill Illium fell forsaken by the gods.\\nNor yet such fierce affray as met the eyes,\\nWhen Milton s angels quarreled in the skies,\\nNor ceased till he who tried to seize the\\ncrown.\\nFrom the celestial heights was hustled down.\\nNor yet again such combats as arose,\\nWhen Rome s proud eagles hovered o er her\\nfoes,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War.\\nAnd gazing world-ward from his car of fame,\\nGreat Gaesar saw and conquered as he came.\\nQuite conscious that such effort would be\\nvain,\\nI tune my harp strings to a humbler strain.\\nRemembering what occurred not long ago,\\nMy voice is still for war with Mexico;\\nBut not qute yet so putting off the fray.\\nThe muse looks backward to an earlier day,\\nWhen you and I marched o er the hostile sod,\\nWhere Scott commanded and where Taylor\\ntrod.\\nBut first an episode or two she brings,\\n(Ghosen from several tingling on her strings)\\nPortraying how in minds of divers mood.\\nIf not with all, with some the army stood;\\nAnd after that provided so you choose\\nShe ll take you with her on to Vera Gruz.\\nFirst then of all, to try the muse s wing,\\nIn humble flight she will attempt to sing\\nOf what occurred between a soldier laddie,\\nBelonging to the staff of Rough and\\nReady,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Episodes of\\nAnd a young girl who, judging from her\\ntone.\\nPreferred, somewhat, our heroes to her own.\\nIt was not long after Resaca s day.\\nWhen Taylor drove Ampudia s hosts away,\\nWhile to escape, forgetful of his pride.\\nThe chieftain swam the Rio Grande s tide,\\nThat on a porch, which over-looked the flood.\\nThere sat a maiden of the Aztec blood;\\nAnd by her chair a stranger was in view.\\nWearing the costume of the boys in blue.\\nPleased seemed the stranger and as pleased\\nthe maid,\\nAlthough his dress had not her country s\\nshade.\\nAnd as they both indulged in converse\\nsweet.\\nSuch as obtains when youthful sexes meet,\\nIt was observed, at times, she turned to chide\\nA creature like a wild-cat at her side.\\nWhose savage mew with mortal terror shook\\nA little dog, which in her lap she took.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "TJie Alexican IVai\\nThe puppy from a mongrel breed was sprung,\\nThe cat a species of the tiger s young,\\nThe one she called Ampudia spoke his\\nname\\nAs oft as to her lap the puppy came;\\nThe other bore a well known soubi^iqnet,\\nWhich at the time she did not chance to say.\\nObserving how with rage the wild cat\\nglowed.\\nAt the caresses on her charge bestowed.\\nAs the dog, trembling, couched upon her\\nknees.\\nShe calmed his fears with words somewhat\\nlike these\\nPoor little pet and did he find it handy\\nTo cross, vvithout a boat, the Rio Grande\\nAnd does he want to take another swim\\nBecause the horrid tiger growls at him\\nAmpudia poor Ampudia does he whine\\nBecause the kitten s eyes are big and shine\\nAnd o er the cur, awhile, she softly sung,\\nWhat seemed a ditty, in her own sweet\\ntongue;\\nThen quickly starting up from where she sat,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "4\\nJ 2 Episodes of\\nWith finger pointing to the restless cat,\\nWhose savage howl and fiercely flashing eyes\\nOnce more elicited the puppy s cries\\nVoyez Americain she said, look there\\nSee tiger cat Ampudia he scare\\nAnd what s his name, fair maid, whose\\neyes of fire\\nGlance on the lap-dog trembling neath his\\nire r\\nPassed o er the damsel s cheek a rising\\nflush.\\nWhich as she turned changed to a deeper\\nblush\\nBright hues of shame not difficult to raise,\\nWhen foeman s daughter speaks in foeman s\\npraise\\nHis name of whom Ampudia s so afraid\\nAsk you his name t is Taylor^ said the\\nmaid.\\nAgain, come fly with me on wings of song.\\nAnd view yon bristling columns march along,\\ni", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War, 13\\nUntil their bayonets on a river gleam,\\nNot far removed from Rio Grande s stream.\\nAscending up its bank, the army s van\\nEnters a village on the San Juan;\\nA rustic hamlet not unknown to fame.\\nAll will admit who hear Camargo s name.\\nThe same an astute General fortified,\\nPlacing the ditch upon the adverse side.\\nAn engineering feat at which the foe,\\nNot only laughed but, also, thanked him too.\\nBut to proced in order long before\\nTh invading forces landed on their shore,\\nThe priests had told the people how the\\nYanks\\nWere given to pillage and all sorts of pranks;\\nSuch as reducing towns by sword and flame,\\nAnd other capers scarcely fit to name\\nSo when the Union columns came in view,\\nExpecting something dreadful from the crew.\\nSomething they knew not what and never\\nknew,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 Episodes of\\nThe frightened people to the churches ran,\\nFlying to Mary to be saved from man;\\nThe entering troops increasing their alarms,\\nBy forming on the plaza under arms.\\nJust opposite the forces on that day,\\nPerhaps a rod or two from where they lay,\\nRose a cathedral, near whose sacred ground\\nHundreds for safet} had collected round.\\nAmong the sweltering masses some at\\nprayer.\\nSome at I know not what nor do I care,\\n(Although twas said, sometimes, among the\\ncrowd,\\nCurses were heard not muttered over\\nloud\\nThe looker on might see a little lass\\nForcing her way before the yielding mass,\\n(A fair-haired girl, whose bright Castilian\\neye\\nProclaimed her blood of no mere common\\ndye),\\nAnd, once delivered from its surging flood,\\nApproach the Plaza where the forces stood.\\nAdvancing from the dim Cathedral s shade,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. 15\\nStartled even at the sound herself had made,\\nIt was observed, when from the lines not far,\\nSomething she bore resembling a guitar,\\nWhile something like a scarf white, blue\\nand red,\\n(Inviting hues was bound aroiuid her head.\\nApproaching nearer still, she paused to gaze\\nAt the long line of troops, who, in amaze\\nAt the appearance of so fair a thing.\\nLooked on the girl with silent wondering.\\nThen she, as conscious of her power to im-\\npart\\nWhat most would touch the stern invaders\\nheart.\\nLoosening from her guitar its silken string.\\nFingered it gently first, to try its ring,\\nAnd then with pleading look eyes with\\nemotion dim.\\nAll trembling, swept the chords and played\\nOtir Nation s Jiymn.\\nThen voices rough, from out that stalwart\\nband.\\nChimed in with Hail Columbia happy\\nland", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "1 6 Episodes of\\nWhile from our ranks, no longer now afraid,\\nOne loud huzza, greeted the Aztec maid.\\nAnd she, unharmed by hostile blade or ball,\\nReturning back, gave confidence to all.\\nOnce more, descending from her airy heights,\\nUpon another scene the muse alights.\\nTwas after Cerro Gordo s dreadful day,\\nThat on the field a bleeding warrior lay\\nFallen but not in death\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to live again\\nWhere war s red chariots skim the sanguine\\nplain,\\nProving to all by his return to life.\\nHow Honor lives in and beyond the strife.\\nYes silent though on tented plain it lies,\\nWith all its seeming, Honor never dies\\nWhen to its course, apparent close is given,\\nIt flies from Earth to find a home in Heaven.\\nAnd who was he the patriot and the brave,\\nWho found a crimson bed but not a grave\\nWith Avhom, while wandering from breast to\\nbreast,\\nThe soul of courage found a place to rest", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "The Mexican Waj; 17\\nIn after years who fought in many fields\\nWho but yon war-scarred man the veteran\\nShields.\\nOnce more Twas after Cerro Gordo s day\\nWhen Santa Anna fought and ran away;\\nShowing his troops how fast a man could peg\\nAlong a race course with a wooden leg.\\n(But better that, considering how he sped,\\nThan some we know off with a wooden\\nhead).\\nWell then T was after Cerro Goido fell\\n(If at the story I propose to tell\\nI ever shall arrive) such was the crowd\\nOf prisoners taken, they were all allowed\\n(No pun upon the word) to go Scott free,\\nExcepting officers these last to be\\nCounted as prisoners held upon parole\\nAfter which understanding, they might stroll\\nWherever they saw fit their friends to meet,\\nAnd talk with them over their sad defeat.\\nWith this arrangement all appeared content,\\nAnd on the strength of it a portion went", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 8 Episodes of\\nTo Orizaba other parties chose\\nJalapa to which point my story goes.\\nIt was a hall of mingled mirth and song,\\nWhere eyes shone out, as if to light along\\nThe reveller s mazy pathway where the\\nc.owd\\nOf worshipers to lovely woman bowed,\\nAs bows an idolizer to a shrine\\nHimself had made half human, half divine.\\nWoman in all her varied phase was there,\\nLike roses from Jalapa gardens rare,\\nAlike in beauty and alike in bloom,\\nDiffering only in color and perfume\\nWhether in deep recess, with willing ear\\nListening to murmured words she loves to\\nhear,\\nOr in the dance to sounds of music sweet,\\nSwiftly she sailed along, with spangled feet\\nTwinkling amid its maze like stars that flit\\nThro a thin cloud at night enlight ning it.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "i\\nThe Mexican War. 19\\nGathered, also, were there strong stalwart\\nmen,\\nJalapa s conquerors while now and then\\nDowncast, it was not difficult to trace\\nFeatures belonging the Aztec race;\\nWhose every look and action plainly told\\nThem as belonging to the class paroled,\\nPermitted there thro courtesy of those\\nWho now their friends were recently their\\nfoes.\\nOn onward with the dance w^ho cares\\nfor pause,\\nMid glistening eagles and mid floating\\ngauze\\nWhere beauty sails around with drooping\\nhead.\\nUpheld by valor with his martial tread\\nBut who is he, with sad and vacant air,\\nAs if he had no part nor portion there.\\nViewing the scene remotely where he stands\\nWith looks abstracted and with folded hands?\\nOh I adjure you by his frequent sigh,\\nSoldiers have pity on your enemy.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Episodes of\\nShe whom he loves he marks with troubled\\ngaze,\\nLike star-light flitting through the waltz s\\nmaze;\\nHe sees her panting bosom rise and fall,\\nAmong the fair, the fairest of them all,\\nAnd, for a?iother, views her glances swim\\nWith the same light which once they had for\\nhim\\nThe smile for which his life he would forego,\\nStill on another beams and that his foe\\nWhile as she sweeps along, her head is seen\\nUpon his shoulder languidly to lean.\\nAnd can love s teachings be so soon forgot\\nMoments of former joys remembered not\\nIt cannot be he will again implore\\nOne favor from her if she grants no more.\\nWith faltering steps and half averted glance,\\nAmid a pause of the suspended dance,\\nApproaching slow, in tones which doubt be-\\ntrayed.\\nHer quandam lover thus addressed the maid:\\nFor the next measure\u00e2\u0080\u0094 if not in demand\\nWill the Seiiora yield to me her hand", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War.\\nQuick flashed the proud Castilian s kindled\\neye;\\nHer burning cheek assumed a deeper dye\\nWoe to the wretch that ever he was born,\\nWho writhed beneath such words of wither-\\ning scorn\\nAnd ask you this oi me T the damsel said,\\nYou, in the fight who with your leader fled\\nThink you Castilian maid so lost to shame.\\nAs with her own to link a caitiff s name\\nSo small her jeweled fingers in demand,\\nThat she must trust them to a coward s hand\\nNo, Sefior, no! your pride I would not vex\\nBut maids Castilian dance not ivith their\\nsexr\\nNo word more bitter censure more severe\\nThan taunt as woman, manly cavalier.\\nNow, turn your field glass once again with\\nme.\\nAnd view an army standing on the sea\\nOn shore a term appropriate but in boat\\nCalled for distinction s sake army afloat.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "Episodes of\\nWhen early morning first unveiled the sun,\\nIt was a goodly sight to look upon\\nGunboats and transports carrying stores of\\nweight,\\nMerchantmen, loaded deep with human\\nfreight,\\nSloops, men-of-war, tenders, at anchor fast.\\nWith flags and streamers fluttering from the\\nmast,\\nAll riding idly upon waves that toss,\\nBefore the city of the Sacred Cross.\\nOn every transport that appeared in view\\nMen clad in uniform of army blue,\\nCrowded its chartered deck a hardy lot\\nOf Union soldiers, under the veteran Scott\\nThe great Pacificator him who came\\nTo conquer peace by means of sword\\nand flame.\\nPeace is my mission to his foe he said,\\nAnd made it sure by cutting off his head.\\nThe gale which had prevailed throughout\\nthe night.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "The Mexican IVar. 23\\nUp to the time the city came in sight,\\n(A norther, in those latitudes well known\\nBy frequent wrecks upon the shingles thrown)\\nHad so increased in force during the day,\\nThe fleet at anchor was compelled to lay.\\nAlthough beyond the reach of shot and shell\\nAimed from the hostile heights, however\\nwell.\\nThe restless city took especial care\\nTo send her greetings to us through the air;\\nEven the castle, impotent as brave.\\nGrowled out her welcome to a bloody\\ngrave.\\nThree days and nights the tempest had full\\nsway\\nThree days and nights the fleet at anchor\\nlay\\nIf long the night, still longer seemed the\\ndays.\\nSpent by the soldier-crew in various ways.\\nMeanwhile on board the gun-boats, as they\\nrode\\nBeside the transports where the troops were\\nstowed,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nEpisodes of\\nProverbial for impatience one could trace\\nIts signs developed by the sailor race.\\nOn every craft which the observer saw,\\nBronzed hands were busy with the sports of\\nwar.\\nIn a mock fight some were engaged at play;\\nSome scanned the clouds, impatient at\\ndelay\\nSome played foot ball upon the yard-arm s\\nslack,\\nUntil the coxswain, piping, played them\\nback;\\nSome played tattoo upon the idle drum\\nSome played the fife and played the d 1\\nsome;\\nWhile one, I grieve to say a pious lad\\nWas heard to mutter too darnation bad\\nTo while away the moments, now and then,\\nMore serious sports, sometimes, amused the\\nmen.\\nSuch as when Tatnall in his tiny boat,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. 25\\nTo the amusement of the troops afloat,\\nWith hastily weighed anchor, bearing down.\\nWas seen to head directly for the town.\\nPassing the city which beheld, aghast.\\nYet bellowed at his rashness as he passed.\\nHis craft steamed on, defiant of all laws.\\nUntil it reached the castle s very jaws.\\nWhere off the ramparts cruising to and fro,\\nHe tossed the gauntlet to th astonished foe.\\nUloa saw, but from her forted wall\\nWithheld her vengeance from a thing so\\nsmall,\\nUntil a shot that skipped along her beam,\\nAwoke the fortress from its silent dream.\\nTwas then put forth her strength the great\\nUloa;\\nBay her fierce war dogs with tumultuous\\nroar;\\nBursts the dark tempest from her smoke-\\nwreathed hold,\\nThe hot rain pouring, while her thunders\\nrolled;", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 Episodes of\\nThe waters boil as boils the whirlpool s\\nflood;\\nThe hissing waves grow red but not with\\nblood.\\nAnd where was he naid all this iron rain\\nUntouched he bughed and blazed away\\nagain,\\nUntil compelled to take the homeward track,\\nBy signal from the flag-ship ordered back.\\nEven then at going, he expressed regret,\\nAnd swore he d whip the blackguard bum-\\nmers yet,\\nSaying, as slow his craft he turned about,\\nIf left alone he would have cleaned them\\nout.\\nLubbers, he cried, while tears his eyelids\\nfilled,\\nJust for my sake can t one of you get\\nkilled\\nBut one of you my hearties ^just to show\\nThat if not ours at least we ve met the\\nfoe.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. ii\\nThis is not fancy s sketch, but solemn fact,\\nHe wept because his crew returned intact.\\nAnd now the south wind came on wings of\\nbalm.\\nSmoothing the billows with its pinions calm.\\nWith hopes deferred no longer hearts are\\nsick,\\nWith hopes accomplished beat their pulses\\nquick\\nThe dull suspense the agony is passed,\\nThe hour so long delayed arrives at last.\\nHark to that sound which o er the water\\ncomes\\nTis the assembly from the flag-ship s drums.\\nThe troops, obedient to the well known call,\\nSwarm on the upper decks expectant all.\\nThe surf boats launched are waiting, side by\\nside,\\nIn line extended where the transports ride,\\nProtected when within the city s reach.\\nBy friendly gun-boats anchored near the\\nbeach\\nWhich also in their first attempt to land,\\nCan sweep such foe as occupies the strand.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 Episodes of\\nMark now the flag-ship Lo a signal floats,\\nFirst line all ready forward to your\\nboats.\\n%\\\\t ^Htthtng,\\nThe signal flag is in the sky\\nTen thousand hearts are beating high I\\nYe, of the foremost line, draw nigh\\nHuzza\\nPrepare to land take heed stand by\\nHuzza\\nThe surf-boats touch the ship s tall side.\\nAlong the lea they smoothly ride.\\nCling to the ropes your steps to guide\\nHuzza\\nDown, down, descend with rapid stride\\nHuzza\\nNow watch the war-words once again,\\nAll eyes upon the flag-ship s main\\nLand land now reads the signal plain.\\nHuzza\\nCast off give way with stalwart strain\\nHuzza", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. 29\\nTiim, trim the boat ply, ply the oar,\\nThe waters foam the war-dogs roar,\\nThe death shells ])urst behind before\\nHuzza\\nBend to the^stroke strain for the shore\\nHuzza\\nThe sea-walls shake with thunder riven,\\nAround ye Avar s red bolts are driven,\\nAbove ye floats the bird of Heaven\\nHuzza\\nStrive, brothers, as ye ne er have striven\\nHuzza\\nThe foremost surf-boat nears the land\\nIt grounds, out dash the dauntless band\\nFollow, my boys, with flag in hand\\nHuzza\\nWe breast the surf we gain the sand\\nHuzza\\nNow, raise the starry banner high\\nRally close up crowd round stand by\\nOur eagle rules the Aztec sky\\nHuzza I\\nComrades one cheer for victory\\nHuzza", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 Episodes of\\nf it^% of Tc4ia %x\\\\\\\\i\\nThe beach was gained the morning sun\\narose\\nOn bristling lines extended, free from foes,\\nWho, when the foremost surf-boats reached\\nthe land,\\nWere heard retiring o er the hills of sand,\\nMarking their course by some expended ball.\\nWhich harmless mid the closing ranks would\\nfall.\\nNo longer now by obstacles oppressed,\\nThe troops proceed the city to invest.\\nHard by the spot upon the yielding sands,\\nTriumphant w^here the bristling column\\nstands,\\nHigh sandy hills, beyond the castle s reach.\\nExtending inw^ard, stretch from beach to\\nbeach\\nA natural breast work whose concentric\\nrounds.\\nCircle the city in their hollow bounds.\\nAlong this narrow but unguarded pass,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War.\\n31\\nNow crowd the glittering column s mingled\\nmass.\\nThe late possessing foe no longer waits,\\nBut fast retreating seeks the city gates,\\nBorne like the chaff upon the rushing wind,\\nLeaving all weightier matter far behind,\\nNor stops his speed until from danger free,\\nHe gains once more the bul\\\\Aarks by the sea\\nThere to relate how stood the foot and horse\\nTill overcome by a superior force;\\nAnd when pursued they yelled with all their\\nmight\\nAnd dared the yankee devils to the fight.\\nMeanwhile in spite of shells that burst\\naround,\\nAnd plunging shot that ploughs the sandy\\nground,\\n(For though the city was far out of sight\\nIts half-spent missiles, sometimes, would\\nalight)\\nOnward and on the taunting banners lead,\\nOnward and on the crowding escorts speed\\nWhile round and round, in rings that closer\\ntwine,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32\\nEpisodes of\\nThe column\\nweaves its ever circling line.\\nBut though\\nthere seemed few causes for\\nalarm,\\nDuring the\\nmarch not all escaped from\\nharm.\\nTwas here the noble Vinton bit the ground,\\nYielding his breath without apparent wound;\\nA shot, twas said, too near his bosom came,\\nStilling the heart which beat for home and\\nfame.\\nAnd further on the brave Albertis died,\\nA drummer lad stretched armless at his side;\\nThe one all ghastly lay without a head,\\nThe other calling mother, as he bled.\\nFrom far Uloa s heights, concealed from view,\\nA monster gun the swift projectile threw.\\nStartled to hear the crash through branches\\ngreen,\\nMade by the deadly missile still unseen,\\nAlbertis, at the moment on the spot,\\nSheltered securely from the reach of shot.\\nStepped, careless, from the covert where he\\nsate,\\nAnd just in time to meet his sudden fate.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. 33\\nAs if to do its fatal mission well,\\nBy the same shot the young musician fell\\nHis comrades pet perhaps his mother s\\njoy-\\nThus fell Albertis and the drummer boy.\\nMeanwhile, despite the shower of shot and\\nshell,\\nSome aimed aslant and some directed well,\\nAbout the city, like a serpent cold,\\nThe army winds its anaconda fold,\\nUntil at last, extending more and more,\\nIts lines converging reach from shore to\\nshore.\\nAnd then, apparently, for days and days\\nThe work was staid, and tho with sore\\namaze.\\nThe foe looked from his tow^ers, his watch\\nwas vain\\nFor signs of life beyond the desert plain.\\nNo drum was heard, no distant bugle sang\\nNo stirring clash of arms no cymbals\\nclang\\nConcealed from view by works prepared with\\ncare.\\nLofC.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 Episodes of\\nNo outward sign revealed our flag was\\nthere;\\nAn army slept with all its sounds of dread,\\nSilent as sleeps the city of the dead\\nThe foe, uncertain where our forces lay.\\nWith random firing vexed the silent day,\\nAnd tho sometimes a loose but fatal shot\\nFell in our lines yet we returned it not.\\n**Shame on ye, idle laggards! foulest shame!\\nUpon your army and your Union s name\\nBoastful as dastards are do what you will,\\nYou dare not raise your heads above the hill\\nCome from your gopher sand holes into sight.\\nAnd Mexico will show ye how to fight.\\nAnd you, our would be allies far and wide.\\nEnticed by falsehood to the adverse side,\\nWho now in freedom s cause are doubtless\\nsick.\\nCondemned to labor with the axe and pick;\\nBreak from the chains your masters would\\ninstall.\\nCome to our lines and we ll receive you all;\\nLeave the invading tyrant to his fate,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. 35\\nCraving- forgiveness when he asks too late.\\nOffensive placards bearing taunts like these,\\nCame to the works with every morning\\nbreeze,\\nWhenever blew from off the hostile shore,\\nA norther strong enough to waft them o er.\\nAnd were you idle, comrades, answer me,\\n(I think that yonder one of you I see).\\nWhose was the pick^axe whose the\\nconstant spade.\\nThrew up the earthworks, or the platforms\\nlaid\\nWho, at the dawn, in feverish sleep was found,\\nA stone his pillow and his bed the ground\\nWho, patient at the insults on him cast,\\nSmiled, as he said, pay day will come at\\nlast.?\\nAnd it did come as will be told in time.\\nIf you will listen further to my rhyme.\\nUp to the moment when that circling band\\nWas drawn around the city s guarded strand,\\nAgainst the Union forces, not a raid", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 Episodes of\\nThe braggart foe to draw them forth had\\nmade.\\nWell pleased, no doubt, for all his taunts,\\nthat they\\nWithin their lines, contented, seemed to stay,\\nDreaming inert, the lazy hours away.\\nTwas afternoon the heavy work was done;\\nMid hazy clouds went down the setting sun;\\nThe waters slept-^no sound came o er the\\nhill\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe air, a chartered libertine, seemed\\nstill;\\nAnd as the shades of evening deeper rose\\nAll nature breathed of quiet and repose.\\nIf she could speak, as if her voice would say,\\nHow sweet the stillness of the closing day,\\nWhen pensive silence sooths the troubled\\nbreast,\\nAnd weary labor sits him down to rest\\nI0 Jtrms.\\nBut hark what sound is that what light\\nis there", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. 37\\nWhat sudden boom disturbs the silent air\\nAgain I hear it nearer still it comes\\nTo arms to arms strike up the rolling\\ndrums\\nQuick, comrades, quick all to your places\\nrun\\nMan man the works it is the signal gun.\\nWake up the war-dogs sleeping on the wall I\\nAlready they are loosed they hear the\\ncall-\\nBehold red lightnings flash from mound to\\nmound\\nListen a nearer deeper deadlier sound\\nPeals of live thunder leap from shore to\\nshore\\nIt is it is oiw batteries opening j^oar.\\nI heard all night the mortars deadly clang\\nAs if, at once, a thousand anvils rang\\nI saw the fiery serpents mounting high,\\nAs if an hundred meteors lit the sky;\\nAnd o er the city s domes a blood-red cloud,\\nLike death enveloped in a crimson shroud,\\n4", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 Episodes of\\nWhile screech and scream and shout and\\nfierce alarms,\\nMixed with the cries of fire and clash of\\narms.\\nIn thunder now the kindled blaze to meet,\\nRattle the cars along the stony street\\nNow as the smouldering- piles in ruin fall,\\nTh insatiate flames to other quarters call.\\nUp yonder tall cathedral s graceful spire\\nIn wreaths fantastic twines the curling fire,\\nSeeming mid clouds of smoke its arms to\\ntoss,\\n(A hideous phantom) upward to the cross.\\nIn vain the pious crowd, in gathering bands,\\nCall upon Mary with uplifted hands\\nNo Mary comes her prosel} tes to save.\\nHer altars serve them for a common gfrave,\\nAs crushing madly through the pictured\\nwalls,\\nFalls the dread shell, and murders where it\\nfalls.\\nHumbled at last encumbered with the slain,\\nThree days and nights beneath that leaden\\nrain.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. 39\\nTo stay the wrath of their relentless foes,\\nA deputation from the city goes,\\nBegging Uloa s commandant to yield,\\nAnd save the city which he cannot shield.\\nBut stern Morelles answers not their cries,\\nStill from the castle gun for gun replies,\\nWhile mid the fiery shower of bombs and\\nballs.\\nRed carnage stalks within the city s walls.\\nTwas then that sick at heart and weak and\\npale,\\nMorelles bride pours forth her piteous wail\\nStay, soldier, sta}s tis thus the mother\\npleads,\\nAmid the ruins where her offspring bleeds\\nStay, soldier, stay one kind reply\\nOne answer to my soul s despair\\nWhen will the death-shell cease to fly,\\nThe bullet hurtle through the air\\nSee yonder, how the rockets gleam\\nThe toppling steeples fall around\\nAnd pouring thick its sulphurous stream,\\nThe belching howitz plows the ground.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 Episodes of\\nLady away where sleeps thy pride\\nThy gallant lord directs the field;\\nArt thou a true Castilian s bride,\\nAnd yet would st bid our leader yield\\nWe go to face the iron hail,\\nMorelles is our battle cry,\\nOne cause is ours no heart must quail\\nMorelles I death or victory\\nI know my lord sustains the fight,\\nAnd know his hand will do its best;\\nBut tell him, mid the strife to-night.\\nHis babe lies wounded on my breast.\\nBel)old is t not a gentle child\\nOnce with his locks he loved to play;\\nLast eve within his arms it smiled\\nHekissed it as he rode away;\\nBut now, alas it smiles no more,\\nIts cheek is wan and crazed its brain;\\nvSee here its robes are red with gore\\nSoldier and must I plead in vain\\nHe hears me not man scorns to hear\\nOr mother s wail or infant s cry\\nAnd hark again that dreadful cheer\\nMorelles death or victory\\nShe sank before the image dim\\nOf her to earth a God who gave.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "The Mexican War. 4^\\nMother through thee I plead to him,\\nSon of the Virgm Jesu, save\\nShe ceased and lo the boon that man denied\\nIndulgent Heaven has yielded to the bride.\\nIs it a trumpet ringing on the blast\\nDid ye not hear it, comrades, as it passed\\nLevel your glasses towards yon buttress\\nbrown\\nA flag of truce is waving from the town;\\nAnd while we gaze upon it, swells again\\nThe well known music of a Herald s strain.\\nApproaching through a gate, which open\\nswings,\\nA messenger of peace this message brings:\\nWeary with watching, weak from loss of\\nlife.\\nThe foe is willing to suspend the strife;\\nThree days and nights he gallantly had\\nstood\\nMid scorching flames and streets that ran\\nwith blood,", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Episodes of\\nAnd only asks, in view of valor shown.\\nTo pass unarmed our lines and join his own\\nSoon as the message to our works had come\\nRolled out, from rank to rank, the pealing\\ndrum,\\nNot for the charge, for which those ranks\\nwere formed\\nTo take, that morn, the city to be stormed,\\nBut as a signal for the stirring cry,\\nWhich rent the hills, of Scott and victory\\nThese terms admitted from Uloa s mast,\\nThe starry banner to the breeze was cast.\\nWhile from each tower surrendered by our\\nfoes.\\nIn lieu of theirs, the spangled flag arose.\\nThen through our lines, unchallenged, passed\\nin swarms.\\nThe sullen soldiery, deprived of arms,\\nAll but Morelles, who, as a reward\\nFor bravery at Uloa, kept his sword.\\nSuch is the tale your minstrel had to tell,\\nHow Vera Cruz and how her castle fell.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "The Mexican IVar. 43\\nAnd now, so patiently you ve heard the\\nstrain,\\nThe muse permits you, comrades, once\\nagain\\n(Leaving behind the city s captured gates)\\nTo join with those who now the dance\\nawaits;\\nWhere in the contest soft, though some may\\nbleed,\\nTis not from heads, but hearts, the wounds\\nproceed;\\nNor made by bolt from forted wall that flies.\\nBut by the keener shaft from woman s eyes.\\nI yield you to her tender mercies sure\\nThat she who wounds you has the skill to\\ncure.", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2895", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "episodesofmexica00patt_0052.jp2"}}