Identifier: personalhistoryo00rich (find matches)
Title: A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company San Francisco, Cal., R. J. Trumbull & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mules,blankets, and silver were brought to Corpus Christi andexchanged for notions, cloth, and tobacco. With trueborder lawlessness, Colonel Kinney, keeper of the ranch,used to buy off with gold pieces the Mexican soldiers whocame to suppress his trade, and fight off the Comanches,who came to steal his goods. Twenty adobe houses about the ranch constitutedCorpus Christi. Here the army remained until the follow-ing spring. It was encamped on a green slope covered withmesquite shrubs and evergreen oaks, extending down to thebeach and along the waters edge for more than a mile.Taylors head-quarters were beside the beach, only a fewyards from Grants regiment. The vicinity of the camp afforded excellent fishing.Hunting deer, and occasionally panthers, shooting turkeys,ducks, and snipe, gave the officers additional amusement.A few miles from the coast thousands of deer roamed inherds, but they were too wary to come within range of thechaparral. Mexicans hunted them with a stalking-horse—
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BREVET SECOND LIEUTENANT GRANT. / iO. PUBLIC LIBRARY. ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILOEN FOUNDAT: 1846.) How Taylor obtained Mules. 101 the dried skin of the head, neck, and part of the body of ahorse, which they pushed before them as they crawled ontheir breasts until within rifle-shot of the grazing host. Herds of wild mustangs also abounded. One day Tay-lor, finding his transportation short twenty-five mules, afterswearing with his usual vehemence at the inefficiency ofthe quartermasters, collected in front of his tent all theMexican traders and visitors in camp, and told them hewould give a fair price for fifty wild horses. Severalinstantly started for the plains a hundred miles away, builta corral with funnel entrance, drove in the wild littlebeasts, and in ten days returned with the required num-ber. Twenty-five were soon lassoed and broken to har-ness, the rest sold to officers at from five to twenty dollarsapiece. Pony races at once became a popular amuse-ment. On the first of October, Gr

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