Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-03-09
TEHUAcAN, Jan. %, 1913.

All were good deal surprised, the evening we
left Puebla, to find themselves ON the National or
Vera Cruz road, and travelling in the direction of
the latter city for, far conjecture could point
out the ultimate destination of the expedition after
the information in relation Reas headquarters be-
ing at Matamoroa Ode Puebla,) and the guerillas
being in the neghborhood Of Pueba the general sup
position was that Rea would be attacked or that tho
General would 60 in search of the guerrilas reported
to be between Puebla and Rio Fro, off the road 1t
was raining when we started, and for some four or
FIVE miles Of the road the night was intensely dark
All, however, went on cheerfuy; for, with General
Lane in command, and making night march, every
man was confident that object worthy of the
sacrifice Of comfort was in view. When we arrived
at Amazoque, the General, leaving the Vera Cruz
and Orizaba roads the left, took road entirely
unknown to any one but himself and his guide For
time 1t was broad and good but, after travelling
some ten or twelve miles from Analogue, we turned
into track but little better than a mule path and
for about eight ten miles the horses had to 90 over
bare and jagged limestone rock. The horses bore it
admirably; and about O'Clock in the morning we
took up quarters at hacienda, near the viii
lage of Santa Clara, at the foot of range of noun
talDs, after having accomplished q march of over
forty miles,
At this place the General informed the officers that
his Immediate Ubect now was to capture Santa Anna,
who, he had information, at Tehuacan with about
one hundred and fifty In order that the Next
eau chleftaln might not obtain information of the
presence Of troops this section Of the country
the General ordered every Mexican in the hacienda,
and every one found on the road during the day. to
be arrested and kept close until left in the evening
The order strictly enforced and at about dusk
the march for Tehuacan distant nearly forty miles,
was taken up, in the full hope that the willy Next
can would soon be within our grasp. Shortly after
leaving the hacienda, part Of the rOad where it
runs through deep and cut, and before the
moon rose, the General and staff riding in advance,
came upon party Of mounted Mexcans armed, be-
fore either saw the other the distance of twenty feet
The Mexcans, eight in number, were instantly dis
armed but IN the Of them we found carriage.
from which stepped Mexican with a passport from
General Smith to travel from Mexico to Orzaba and
back. with an escort Of eight armed servants. This
being discovered, the arms of course returned
and the cayacade was permitted TO 20 on.
Midway between the hacienda we had left and this
place, the road becomes as bare and uneven a rock
as il was part Of the march of the previous night
The horses, jaded from the rapidity with which we
had moved the whole distance from the capital gave
signs that cautioned their riders not to push them too
hard and the consequence was the command did not
travel with he CELEBRITY the general designed-for he
had intended that the forty miles between the hacien-
da and Tehuacan should be accomplished in about
seven hours and that he should arrive there about two
in the mcrning Would that lie had
Within eight or ten miles Of Tehuacan, the guide