Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-05-12


continue 10 be the case during our stay 10,
This country. Since my last q have ylsIz
ted The much talked OF. fortress and castle
of San Jnansde Ulloa. and j assure you
not acconntssofails. extent. strength, &c..
that YOU maysread iof,lhas been exaggera::1
tied. iltis builtof sea .corak limestone and
granite, rnounts,about 275 guns and NOR
tars, some ofihe largestssize, and manned
by Americans, l do moi, think The combined
navy ofthe world couldlake it. A visit
10 the castle alone repays me for all the.
fatigue that j have undergone during the
Tcampaign-more particularly when l see
the stars and stripes floating from the flag
staff.
There appears great irregularily in the
lmaiIs, many of;which,I i have no doubt,
never reach the volunteers; many of our
men / know have not received a line from
home since they left home. Last night
we gol mail Of alhe 22d February; on
29rh March we had mail from Columbia
in 10 days. Very few Of the papers are
ever received, as the bags have been
opeued on ship board and The envelopes
torn of. As we have established Post
Office for our brigade hope things will
gel on better. Yours truly.
Lieut.. William Price, Of illinois, who
was killed in the battle Of Buena Vista,
was seventy-,wo years old. A correspon-
dent of The New York Post says he had
left a home Of afhuence land ease. with
the expressed wish to diein he service Of
his country. and, need be, on The field Of
battle. They cannot cheat me out Of
many years." said he:; When ordered
:wihlhe battalion, Ikea forlorn hope, to.
the trying contest in The mountains. he ex-
claimed ,withfa look Of joy, as he drew
.his. sword, SHOW, boys, this looks like do
ing something" The enemy lliumphed
over his fall, supposing him to be Gen.
Wool.
The same writer thus alludes to the
deatl, Of noble German in the iercely
contested hatletbf Buena Vista:
n the came part of the field, and about
the same time with Clay. Mckee and
Hardin. another fell, pierced by lance,
whose name is worthy Of place in the
rolls Of fame-private Alexander Kunze,
Of Company Fl. I'd Regiment of Illinois.
| The writer was honored with his friend.
ship, and had an opportunity of knowing
him well, being member of the same
com pany an his tent mate. His conduct
on the field was most soldiery, cool, calm,
deliberate and prompt in obeying orders.
His courage was conspicuous, even in the
moment ofhis death, when he refused to
surrender. Except brother in South
America, he leaves no relatives on this
continent. His widowed mother lives 10
Bueckeburg, in Hanover, near to his ma :
tive city, Hamburg. He received splen.
did education at the Universities of Jean
and Goe,tingen. He had been but year
in the Uuiled States when he joined our
j regiment in Alton. whittier he had come
10 volunteer, from Wisconsin. His mo-
tives in taking this step were that he might
serve the country, whose constitution he
J respected before an other system Of gov
ernment. and to crafty his curiousily in a
newsmode Of life, by seeing Mexico, and
4 observing, with philosophic eye. the
character of her people aud institutions.
A The writer promised much pleasure to
4 himself in travelling with him through this
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age, and probably the most; learned man
IN, tho army Hio knou iedpa ne nbiIoIooy