Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE.

Only 520 of Gen. Scott’s Mexican War Soldier* Are Still Alive. There are in the entire country just 520 veterans of the Mexican war, and these recently celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the fall of the City of Mexico in San Francisco. On that occasion the grizzled warriors recalled the trage-

dies that gave to the United States a vast portion of her territory. Major Edwin A. Sherman of Oakland, Cal., is the president of the veterans’ association. In speaking of the Mexican war Major Sherman said: “Gen. Winfield Scott, the Amerioan commander, fought and won the battles of Contrasty Gkurubusca. BJ Molino de Rey, Castle of Chapul tepee, Vera Ortiz, and last the City of Mexico. The total American loss was 3,204, equal to onehalf of the army that captured the City of Mexico. “By the treaty that closed the Mexican war, a territory over 700 miles north and south and 900 miles east and west, or 030,000 square miles, were ceded to the United States, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico were added to our national domain and California saved from becoming a British province, by sale for $50,000,000 to pay the Mexican debt. “For these reasons as well as others the 520 survivors of the" Mexican war celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the crowning victory of our arms directed by our matchless general, Winfield Scott, under whom we fought and achieved such glorious results.”

MAJOR E. A. SHERMAN.