A print of the battle field of Resaca de la Palma, apparently based upon a sketch made in the field by Thorpe. He describes the area depicted in the print where a road crosses a ravine that is "sixty yards wide and nearly breast high" and where "the lowest parts of the ravine are at all times filled with water, forming long and serpentine ponds through the prairie. In very rainy seasons, these ponds unite across the ridge forming the road, and the flow off towards the Rio Grande, making what is known by the apparently contradictory, yet proper name of the Dry River of Palma. Along the banks of this dry river, and more particularly on the side then occupied by the Mexicans, the chaparral grows more densely, and at this time, save where it was broken in by the passage of the road, formed almost a solid wall." [This print is from the book "Our Army on the Rio Grande," by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, opposite page 92]
