400 FORCED MARCH — EL PASO. Book II. 
We continued our march through a district without water, 
covered with withered grass, till — at the foot of a rocky 
hill — poplars and willows again appeared, among which a 
small river flowed. It rises not far from this spot, and is 
said to be, I know not how correctly, only a reappearance 
of the Rio del Carmen. The place where it again seeks 
the light is called A amos de Pefia. While I stood here 
to fish, I saw the fresh track of Indians and deer. 
From this place we came to Carrizal, where we fell 
into the usual road between Chihuahua and El Paso. 
Having already described this locality I shall have but 
little to say respecting our farther march. 
At Carrizal we learned that we should find no water 
either at the Charcos del Grado or at the Cantarezio, and 
we were therefore obliged to prepare for a forced march of 
a very hazardous extent. Asa preparation for it, we took 
a whole day's rest at Ojo de Lucero. At dusk in the 
evening the brigade commenced its march, which, with two 
short interruptions, it continued for 24 hours, till we 
arrived the following evening in the dark at Guadalupe, 
on the Rio Grande. During this terrible march I saw the 
foot soldiers, with the women and children, keep up for 
hours in a trot w r ith the cavalry, the artillery, and the 
baggage waggons. At the two halting-places it was dis- 
tressing to see the poor exhausted creatures coining slowly 
and painfully on. But to lag behind was to die, if not 
from hunger and thirst, yet by the blood-thirsty Indians 
who followed us like a pack of wolves. The brigade 
accomplished 28 leguas, or 84 English miles, in these 
24 hours ! Water-casks were sent to meet us five or six 
miles before we reached Guadalupe. 
On Sunday, April 24th, the brigade entered El Paso. 
The gardens and fields around the town were at this season 
