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every effort to insure success to our
operations. The loss of our Division
was much less than either the first or
second Divisions it being about 60
Killed & Wounded. The loss of the 3
Divisions was about 550 to 600

Friday Sept 25 1846
Quarters
This Morning took a promonade
through the city in full Texas
uniform. U.S. ragged clothes bare footed
and nearly hatless Whiskers and Mustaches too [long?]
Find the city
well built strongly built in the
moorish style with flat roofs
the principle streets are paved.
The stores and shops are all
closed so we cannot buy any
thing as yet. Many of the citizens
removed from the city previous
to the Battle. Monterey is situated
on the San Juan River at the mouth
of the gorge near the [pass?] of Mounta
ins. From the height of the Bishops
the view is Magnificent the City
with its gardens and orange groves
on the one hand on the other as you look
up the valley you behold a the continued sheet

every effort to insure success to our
operations. The loss of our Division
was much less than either the first or
second Divisions it being about 60
Killed & Wounded. The loss of the 3
Divisions was about 550 to 600

Friday Sept 25 1846
Quarters
This Morning took a promonade
through the city in full Texas
uniform. U.S. ragged clothes bare footed
and nearly hatless Whiskers and Mustaches too [long?]
Find the city
well built strongly built in the
moorish style with flat roofs
the principle streets are paved.
The stores and shops are all
closed so we cannot buy any
thing as yet. Many of the citizens
removed from the city previous
to the Battle. Monterey is situated
on the San Juan River at the mouth
of the gorge near the [pass?] of Mounta
ins. From the height of the Bishops
the view is Magnificent the City
with its gardens and orange groves
on the one hand on the other as you look
up the valley you behold a the continued sheet