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following extract, from letter from of his for mer companions in arms, dated

 CANT PALoAAs,

 Aug. 2I, lS47.

 "We have organized one of the finest cavalry com pancs that l have in the service It is composed chieGy of troops from the Arkansas Regiment and from the first and second Regiments of Illinois Infantry. We number in all something over 100 men, our company k now stationed at Palouas Pass, distance of about 2 or l5 miles from Saltillo Gsn. Wool's Head Quarters are still al Buena Vista the old General believes, as well as q great many oiheT officers of the Army, that another fandaaqO will take place at Buena Vista before Ioas We are daily receiving orders from Head Quarters and from the Military Governor of Salhllo, Maj. Washington oi e Sd Artillery, to be as viglaRt possible, and furthermore thai the enemy are on the advance and that deticha .n' oi aneers are to attack our camp and thereby cut of all communication with Saltillo wblle the na.n body to advance by way of Augua Naevs and attack BueRa Vista"