Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-14


Her dress was a gaudy barege, from the
waist down; above it linen chentt CT be-
lieye that is the name) and bare arms, neck
and bust The chen,t was fastened With
gold button, and she had gold earrings and
a number of finger rings. The only thing
oatre about her was that she was barefoot
ed, but as that was the fashion, and her
| feet were small and pretty, that did not
spoil the romance. She was the first se,,o-
rita had seem she was pretty senorito;
like pretty girls generally; and of course
visited her every day. There was some
aiculty however in exchanging senti-
ments. She spoke nothing but Espan(y)ol,
and could not exactly speak Espanol L
was just from College, and could speak
Latin glibly, so | tried that. Latin and
Spanish are very similar and it was the
best that could bedone under the circum-
stances. Long, long shall remember
The dark eyed Senorita,
/ The maid of Vera Cruz e-t
| Night came on, and found MS much fa-
tiguea by the labor Of the day. o. on
dition was as uncomfortable as nn-
agined. In going into the fight that morn
ing we had thrown off our Blankets, and
many had thrown off their haversacks con
taining their vict,tals. Many had nothing
to cat, and all were without blankets. And
thus we were to spend the second night
Getting soft chunk for a pillow, few
leaves for bed, and a bush for covering,
we laid down, exhausted and hungry, to
soldiers rest. But we had achieved glory
enough for one day. We had fought the
| first fight of the campaign; we had shed
/ the first blood of the defenders of Vera
Cruz We had faced that day FIRE which
only veteran soldiers could be expected to
endure. Our 1T. Colonel had fallen Sc
yerely wounded the blood of several of our
men had criinsoned the sand hills Itw
/ the first blood that flowed at Vera Cruz,
and the crimson current was not stanched, :,
until it ceased to flow inside the city of
Mexico, 1t was the first blood shed in the
campaign, andit was the last blood shed in
the campaign. The Palmettoes fred the
| first and the last gun of this campaign.
With the honory of the day as the only
compensation for our hard lot, we sank to
sleep " And the morning and the evening
| were the third day"
I The order of investment was this:
Worth's brigade occupied thesouth side
| of the city, Patterson's division next, cover
! ing the rear and west side of the city; and
Twigg's brigade occupied the north side,
! including the little village of Yergara,
about three miles from the city, Tho dis
tanee from beach to beach was about seven
miles, and the lines were extended so as to
form a complete chain of investment, stop
ping all communication with the city. The
! line of Investment was about three miles
from the city, though our position was FREE
| qucntly nearer, Twigg' sbrigaae was land
ed on the evening of the 10th, and they
| reached Yegara and closed the Investment
on the 18th. They had occasioned slight
skirmishing in their, advance. Twigg's
was just in time to capture a train of mules
loaded with wine and provisions for the
city. This was distributed among the ar
my. -
They made. no sortics, but shut theru-
selves up in the city, trusting to their for
tiied places for protection. In fee2t the
/ garrison was too weak to act except defen-
siyclys We had a splendid army of more
than 10000, while they had only or T.
I 900, about 1000 Of whom @erein the cas-.
/ tic, ~
[ The following is an siumeratiop of our
army: u
"Worth's 1st brigade of regulars con
sisted of Dancan's battery Of horse artillery;
| the I'd and Sd regiments of artillorY the
4th, 5th, 9th and Sth regiments of infant
Try, with theaddition Of two independent
companies of volunteers. 1wig4's dbrig-
ade of regulars I'aylor's battery, the, lst
4 and 4thregiments of artillery, the list; I'd,
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