Borland and Danley

After their capture at Encarnación, Arkansans Major Solon Borland and Captain C.C. Danley were taken with the rest of their men to San Luis Potosí and then on to Mexico City. They were sometimes forced to travel over 40 miles a day on the journey, suffering the “third plague of the Egyptians” (lice), and were provided poor rations including “stewed cur.” Both Borland and Danley eventually managed to escape from captivity, but were forced to go into hiding outside of Mexico City when Danley became deathly ill. Shortly after the Battle of Contreras, American troops passed by where the two were hiding and Borland found a musket, “fell into ranks and did some little duty that day.”