It has been a task of much research and some expense, but as I am the sole survivor of that war now residing in Lawrence county, it is not likely that any one else will ever take the pains to collect the facts herein presented, and thus rescue them from oblivion. It is now over 54 years since Capt. Henry DAVIS' Company (F) was raised in this county for the Mexican War; and it is 52 years since the war closed. This company served in the 2nd regiment. Without intending to disparage the efforts or patriotism of the men who have served their country in other wars in which the United States has engaged at various times, I may be permitted to say that no one of them was so successfully and economically prosecuted and was so pregnant with grand and beneficial results to the winning side. Had the policy advocated by the Whigs in the presidential campaign of 1844 proven successful the Untied States would in all probability still be confined for its eastern boundary to the Sabine river, and the eastern rim of the Great American Desert; and the one port of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia river, and possibly Seattle would be our only outlet to Asia and the Islands of the Pacific. I ask pardon of your readers for this digression from the original object of this paper into the political phase of the subject. It is a big and fruitful subject but I must forgo in this place the inclination to discuss it – I fear I might be treading on anti-expansion corns.