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Sunday August 23rd 1846
This morning we arrived at the
town of Colmena 120 miles from
San Fernando after a travel of
days over a Mountanious
country. Our rout was for several
days up the valley of the San
Fernando River thence [turning?]
west over the mountains. Our road
was only a trail and having
to march in a single file it made
our lines about 2 miles long.
Two days previous to our arrival
here we had an alarm that
the Mexicans had cut off our
rear guard and was about to
attack us in front. We halted
and partly formed for battle
but it turned out to be a
false alarm. We had been
informed for several days
that there was from 3 to 4000
Mexicans fortifying at this
place but it was a mistake
We sent in a spy company to
reconoiter but they found nothing
but peacable citizens and
plenty to eat for our selves