lowing were the different regiments, and the mode of their distribution:
At Camargo. 2d Brigade, General Pillow commanding, composed of 2d Tennessee, Colonel Haskell; Alabama, Colonel Coffee; Ohio and Kentucky Brigade, General Marshall commanding, composed of the 2d Kentucky, Colonel McKee, 2d Ohio, Col. Morgan; Illinois, Brigade, General Shields commanding, composed of 3d Illinois, Colonel Forman, 4th Illinois, Colonel Baker, 2d Infantry, Colonel Riley.
At Reynosa, Company H. 2d Artillery and two companies of the 1st Indiana, Captain Swartwout commanding.
Matamoras, 3d Ohio, Colonel Curtis, Captains Louds, Vanness, and Norman's companies of Artillery, Colonel Clarke commanding.
Camp Belknap, Indiana Brigade, General Lane commanding: 2d Indiana, Colonel Bowles, 3d Indiana, Colonel Lane.
Mouth of the Rio Grande, 1st Indiana, Colonel Drake.
Brasos Island, Captain Porter's company of Artillery,
Point Isabel, one company of Artillery, Major Gardner commanding
Nov. 2d, 1846. orders were received from Washington, directing General Taylor to announce to the Mexican authorities that the armstice was broken up and that we were to commence hostilities with greater energy than ever. Major Graham, with a small escort was dispatched to give the information to the Mexican forces. General Patterson was ordered to Tampico with a part of our forces at Monterey. General Worth was ordered with his division excepting the 7th Infantry, a company of artillery and McKall's
