The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-07-16
Miscellaneous.
Personal Appearance OF General
TayIOP.

Taylor.
One of the returned volunteers who
toughtunderG General Taylor at Monterey,
has furnished aleaf of his diary, desert
bing the personal appearance and man
ners OF the great hero, as follows:
The hero Of Buena Vista, around
whose military brow so many chaplets of
fame have been thrown, presents in his
personal appearance many of those stri-
king stamps of nature, which mark the
gentleman and the officer. Of an aver
age medium height, being about FIVE feet,
nine inches, he i%nclines to a heaviness of
frame and general well developed mus
cular outline with some tendency to cor
pulency; ~ofsquare build, he now inclines
to stoop: and from the great equestrian
exercise the nature of his life has led
him necessarily to undergo, his interior
eXtremities are somewhat bowed. His
expansive chest shows him capable of
undergoing that vast fatigue through
which ne has passed amid the hammocks
and savannabs of Florida, and tue still
more recent fields of Mexico.-His face
is expressive of great determination
yet still so softened by the kindlier feel.
ings of the soul, as to render the perfect
stranger prepessessed in his behalf. His
head is large, well developed in the inte-
rior regions, and covered with a moder-
ate quantity ofhair, now tinged by the
coloring pencil of time which he wears
parted on II side, and brushed down.
His eyebrows are heavy, and extend over
the optic orbit; are grey, full of fire, and
expressive when his mental powers are
called into play, yet reposing as if in
pleasant quiet, when in ordinary. His
nose IS straight neither partaking of the
true Grecian o Roman order; his lips
thin, the upper firm, and the lower slight
ly projecting. The outline of his face
is oval, the skin wrinkled, and deeply en-
Drowned by the many tropical suns to
which he has been exposed. His man
ners are frank and social, and no one ev-
er left his company, without feeling that
he had been mingling with a gentleman
of the true olden times. He at times ap-
pears in deep meditation, and is then not
always accessible. In his military disci-
pline he is firm and expects all orders G.
%manating from his office to be rigidly en-
forced and observed-treating his men
not as helots or slaves, but exercising
only that command which is necessary
forthe good ofthe whole. To the young
or officers under him, he is peculiarly len
lent-often treating their little faults
more with a fathers forgiveness, than
with tine judgment of a ruler. In his
genera! toilet he does not initiate the
beau Brummels, and band,box dandies
o fthe present fashionable epoch, but APP
parcels his person in unison with his age,
and has no great prediction for the uni
form. In this, however, he is by TO
means peculiar, for a majority of our reg
ular military gentlemen seldom appear
in their externals on duty; and the sta.
tons to which Gen. Taylor has been as
signed, have been in the warm and sun.
ny South, rendering the heavy blue cloth
undress coat, disagreeable to the physi.
cal feelings. have generally seen him
in a pair of gray trowsers, a dark vest
and either a brown or speckled frock coat
reaching lowerthan would suit the starch.
ed ank prim bucks of modern civilization
He wears a long black silk neck hand.
kerchief, the knot not looking as if he
had been torturing himself to arrange i
before a full length mirror; he sometimes
wears a white hat, resembling in shape
used by our boatmen, and a pair of com.
mon soldier shoes, not much polished.