...emporary injury sufficient to make me ineligible, for a time, to enter the Academy. Nothing of the kind occurred, and I had to face the music. Georget... ...t sit in my room doing nothing. There is a fine library connected with the Academy from which cadets can get books to read in their quarters. I devote... ...cure a detail for a few years as assistant professor of mathematics at the Academy, and afterwards obtain a permanent position as professor in some re... ...eeks were shorter than one week at West Point. Persons acquainted with the Academy know that the corps of cadets is divided into four companies for th... ...re, a day separating the divisions. The for- ward division halted again at Marin, twenty-four miles from Monterey. Both this place and Cerralvo were n... ...st have given them a favorable opinion of Los Grengos— ”the Yankees.” From Marin the movement was in mass. On the 19th General Taylor, with is army, w... ...osition was reached. One of these officers was a Lieutenant Semmes, of the Marine Corps. I think Captain Gore, and Lieutenant Judah, of the 4th infan-... ... three days’ bombardment by the navy an assault was made by the troops and marines, resulting in the capture of the place, and in taking 5,000 prisone... ...t-Commander George Brown commanding, be- low. She met Colonel Ellet of the Marine brigade below Natchez on a captured steamer. Two of the Colonel’s fl...

...premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for you to read when I am gone. Y ou will f... ..... They say the other day Matthew Ivanych Platov drove them into the river Marina and drowned some eighteen thousand in one day.” Alpatych collected h... ... Andrew Kaysarov, his adjutant’s brother. “Those verses... those verses of Marin’s... how do they go, eh? Those he wrote about Gerakov: ‘Lectures for ...