The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-29
Lieut.. Arthur A. Adams IT,, His
 Grandfather and Mexican War
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

| little incident which is unique III resaru to one of the most popular young men in
 Birmingham, Lieut.. Arthur A. Adams, Jr., will be appreciated.
 Seventy years ago on September zl' last the seventieth anniversary of the battle of Monterey was observed on a similar occasion 10 years before, on the sixtieth anniversary, Capt. w. B. Walton of
 Nashville, Tenn, father of Mrs. Arthur
 A. Adams of this city, and grandfather
 of Lieutenant Adams, was alive, being
 the only surviving commissioned officer out of 56
 At that time, Captain Walton wrote
 most interesting article which was re- produced on the seventieth anniversary eight years after his death, in the Nash
 vile Banner, in which he declared that "he felt 1t an incumbent commendable
 duty to commemorate the memory and services of his old comrades of six de-
 cades past by contributing something
 from his pen so that the loving descend-
 ants, kindred and friends of these old soldiers might keep in touch with those
 bloody epoch-making days"
 The fact that Captain Walton's grand son, Lieutenant Adams Gone of the finest
 and most courageous and splendid young
 men in this community, young man who numbers his friends by the hundreds
 and whose parents, MT. and Mrs. Arthur
 A. Adams, are among the genuine, sub stantial citizens of this city), went to the Mexican border on almost the an- niversary date of the battle of Monterey, 70 years later, makes the incident of
 unusual interest.
 While our boys have not seen service
 such as the First Tennessee saw back in the days when Captain Walton and his comrades were engaged in the Mex ican war, when there were so many cas- l ualties in the battle of Monterey that Captain Walton's regiment went down in history as the "Bloody First" still 'our boys'' are there-ready and waiting to do as valiant service as their fore fathers.
 Lieutenant Adams and Lieut.. Ebert Jomison were practically responsible for the organization of Battery c, which IS now at Camp Funston, Ariz, and the brave, patriotic spirit of these two young fellows inspires other to work and con- summate an organization which is an honor to their city, their state and their
 country.
 Quoting from the article of Captain Walton, which he wrote upon the six tieth anniversary of the battle of Monte
 rey, the boys of Battery will find words
 which will incite their patriotism and
 give them a new impetus when they read of the wonderful march of the "First
 Tennessee" and some of the incidents along the line.
 Among other things, Captain Walton
 said:
 veterans of the civil and Cuban wars still have their reunions, but the Mex ican war veterans have ceased to do so,
 because too few in number and feeble in
 physique to rally reunion. With them, 1t is now more easy to count the living
 than the dead
 "In response to the call of Governor
 A. V. Brown in May, 1S46, for volunteers
 for the Mexican war, F companies from
 middle Tennessee assembled at Nashville June l. 1S46, and went into quarters at
 Camp Taylor, two miles below the city
 Here we were mustered into the service
 of the United States for F months by
 Gen. w. G. Harding and Capt. Milton
 A. Haynes, and immediately thereafter the regiment organized by electing field officers, aggregating 904 men, rank and file. The command then marched to the Nashville Female academy and were pre- scented by the young lady pupils With an elegant blue silken banner with gilt spread eagle center and bearing the motto on it's folds: Better to weep in solitude for the fallen brave than the presence of men too timd to strike for their country.
 "Our newly elected Colonel Campbell received the flag with appropriate re- sponse, and turned it over to the keeping
 of Color Bearer J. M. Scantland of Cap tain Fosters company, amidst the plau- dits and shoutings of an enthusiastic citizen multitude.
 "In the meantime, Governor Brown had l provided transports to convey the regi- ment to New Orleans. The steamers c. | Connor, Talley and the Tennessee were | the boats employed for this service. The l authorization of the troops was the most 1 touching and pathetic scene of all-fare- | wells. between parents and sons. wives and husbands, lovers and sweethearts was tear embracing affair usual on similar occasions among civilized people, l but it was of short duration. The cables were let go, stage blanks drawn in, the I steamer swung out into the current. the | paddle wheels moved and she was under | way for her destined port amid the peals of artillery and shoutings of the shore | thronged multitude.
 | ''At all of the towns and cities along I rivers we were joyously welcomed by the people. Our transports reached New Or 1 leans on June Il, F and IS. We were l quartered on the lower levee. and after l two days delay were provided with our | camp equipage and ready to sail for | Mexico. Three sail vessels, the Chapin, l Charlotte and Orleans, were provided to 1 transport us to Brazos, Santiago. We l embarked on June IF, and were imme- | diately lowed out the mouth of the Mis- l sissippi river by steam tugs and cast | in lieu of steam. After three days sail 1 ing under fair weather we anchored off 1 BraZos Island. The trip across the gulf
 was uneventful, save suffering from sea- | sickness, which proved painful, repul- l sive ordeal for land-lubbers
 | "After some delay, on account of
 stormy weather, all of the First regi-
 ment got safely ashore on Brazos jisland, a barren, shadeless sandbar. Here
 we camped 10 days, then marched 10 miles to the mouth of the Rio Grande; thence transported by boat 30 miles up
 the river to Lomita UIittle HilD, on the Mexican side of the river. There
 was the real beginning of the cam lpaign. Our camps were on the shade less, sun stricken plateau, kept muddy by frequent rains. and no drinking wa ter but the Rio Grande, containing about a teaspoonful of rich mud to the lpint. This condition of things soon told on the health of our men; measles, .1, @zx,x fAxra rars a