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Excerpt from 1846 1882; The First Regiment of New York Volunteers Commanded by Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson, in the Mexican War: Names of the Members of the Regiment During Its Term of Service in Upper and Lower California, 1847 1848, With a Record of All Known Survivors on the 15th Day of April, 1882, and Those Known to Have Deceased
Thirty-five years have elapsed since our regiment landed on the soil of California, and over thirty-three years have passed since the Government dispensed with our services, leav ing each member of the regiment free from further military service, and thereafter to assume the responsibility of citizen ship, each for himself to carve out his own future. In one respect we were favored beyond any other regiment serving during the Mexican war, in being discharged in California the same year that gold was discovered at Sutter's saw-mill, but a few months subsequent to that event, and it is to be regrettedthat so few of us are enjoying the benefits resulting from that wonderful discovery. Yet it is a question whether that discovery was not as unfortunate for ourselves, as it proved to be for many others in the country, including that noble old pioneer, General John A. Sutter, through whose instrumentality the discovery was made. Is it not a matter of fact, that it somewhat rudely invaded happy homes, and interrupted the peaceful, prosperous, and contented lives then being led by the native population of California.
I will 'make no attempt to lay before you the difficulties experienced in obtaining the information presented in these pages. The long period that elapsed since the discharge of the regiment, had erased from the memory of the majority of our comrades the recollection of events, many died within a few years subsequent to their discharge from the service, many were scattered to remote parts of the world, and too many were disinclined to take up the pen to transmit a record of what their memory may have retained, but others freely contributed such information as they possessed or could obtain.
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