Lieutenant Grant offered his services, which were accepted .-- PUBLISHERS.
(*3) Mentioned in the reports of Major Lee, Colonel Garland and General Worth .-- PUBLISHERS.
(*4) NOTE .-- It had been a favorite idea with General Scott for a great many years before the Mexican war to have established in the United States a soldiers' home, patterned after something of the kind abroad, particularly, I believe, in France.

He recommended this uniformly, or at least frequently, in his annual reports to the Secretary of War, but never got any hearing.

Now, as he had conquered the state, he made assessments upon the different large towns and cities occupied by our troops, in proportion to their capacity to pay, and appointed officers to receive the money.

In addition to the sum thus realized he had derived, through capture at Cerro Gordo, sales of captured government tobacco, etc., sums which swelled the fund to a total of about $220,000.

Portions of this fund were distributed among the rank and file, given to the wounded in hospital, or applied in other ways, leaving a balance of some $118,000 remaining unapplied at the close of the war.