ERRATA. 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 PRICE: 25 CENTS FIRST EDITION 25,000 HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN WAR by the Hon. WILLIAM McKAY Comrades and welcome Guests: It has been the custom of veterans of the war with Mexico to celebrate the fall of the capital of that Republic before the prowess of American soldiers on the 14th day of September, 1847. Hence are assembled around this festive board in this magnificent Hotel Continental the few veterans of that war whose far-wandering footsteps have brought them to the “elbow-touch” once more on a foreign soil. We meet to-night in this splendid capital of France, yet with the radiant folds of our country’s flag above us, that flag honored of the nations: “For grace and beauty and order draw Around that symbol of light and law.”