To the kindness and courtesy of Cols. Doniphan and Price, Lieut. Col. Jackson and Maj. Gilpin, Capts. Waldo and Reid, Montgomery, Leintz, and Dudley H. Cooper, the author is indebted for much valu able information. He also desires to express the obligations under which he feels himself to the late lamented Capt. Johnston, aid-de cam to Gen. Kearney, whose notes were recently published, and to the Hon. Willard P. Hall, of Missouri, for an account Of the march of Lieut. Col. Cooke to California, and of the subsequent operations of Gen. Kearney in that country.

His acknowledgments are also due to his valued and esteemed friend, L. A. Maclean, of the Missouri Horse Guards, who generous] and gratuitously furnished most of the designs which embellish this work. These sketches were engraved by H. C. Grosvenor, of Cincinnati.

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