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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS
Birth and Parentage Born in the Navy A Fistic Encounter
and its Consequences A Jacksonian Midshipman at Four
teen On the Schoolship Independence Passed Midshipman
and Ordered to the Congress 44 as Acting Master Secret
British Designs on California......
Mission for Commodore Stockton Tradition of the Service

CHAPTER II THE WAR WITH MEXICO
Secretary Bancroft s Instructions to Commodore Stockton upon
Taking Command of the Pacific Squadron The Situation in
California The Army of the West at Fort Leavenworth
General Wool Kearny at Santa Fe The Meeting with Kit
Carson Kearny Pushes on to California Battle of San Pas-
qual Beale Commands the Guns Mexicans in Overwhelm
ing Force Kearny in Straits Beale and Carson Undertake
Desperate Journey Bringing Nows to Stockton The Relief
Column Benton s Speech in the Senate His Tribute to
Beale Beale s First Visit to San Francisco Bay in the Fall of
His Letter to Fremont
1846
.CHAPTER III WITH CARSON ON THE GILA
Commodore Stockton s Des
Beale the Hero of San Pasqual
patches and the Praise of his Brother Officers Beale and
Carson Set Out across the Plains to Carry the News to Wash
ington General Sherman s Picture of Carson Adventures
on the Gila Dogged by Indians for Eight Hundred Miles on
the Central Plains "Them s Arrers" Lions in St. Louis
and Washington A Short Holiday Back across the Plains
Again Incredible Hardships in the Gila Country Beale Dis-