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Originally Posted by legendsport

from the Richmond Courier, February 5, 1904:

STUART'S CORP TO LINK UP WITH WHEELER - R.E.L. Stuart's Second Corps, having successfully disembarked at Vera Cruz reported that cavalry scouts have linked up with the vanguard of Joseph Wheeler's First Corps north of Mexico City.

"Of the Mexicans, there has been little sign," said Stuart to a group of war correspondents. "It is assumed that they are holing up inside the fortifications around the capital, much as they did the last time an American army was in these parts."

SUPPLY CONVOYS HARASSED BY "BANDITOS" - The public information office of the First Corps, under Major General Wheeler, has reported that the supply trains of the Corps, in traversing the mountainous areas leading back to Sonoran depots, have been continually ambushed by Mexican irregulars. The leader of these forces is reported to be one Pancho Villa, a 25 year-old expert on so-called "guerilla" tactics.

hmmm....a early 20th century Vietnam? Good to see the Mexicans aren't rolling over and taking it from the CSA