"There is no water here, only what we get by sinking barrels in the sand, and let the water rise in them, and it is very brackish - almost heaves us when we drink it. Clouds of sand are continually blowing over us, in our eyes and victuals. This certainly is a very disagreeable place. Not a tree to be seen and nothing to delight the eye of man. A barren waste."- Stephen F. Nunnalee, Journal, July 5, 1846

First Encampment
• July 4, 1846: Company D, along with most of Alabama regiment, arrives off the bar at Brazos Santiago, Texas, aboard the steamship Fashion.
• July 19-22, 1846: Capt. Moore and three other members of the company (Bell, Kirksey, and Creswell) visit Matamoros.
• July 20, 1846: Alabama regiment marches from Brazos Santiago to mouth of the Rio Grande.
• July 24, 1846: Alabamians arrive at Camp Belknap, about two miles upriver.

In between encampments here, the Alabama regiment was stationed at Camp Belknap and Camargo.

Second Encampment
• Nov. 29, 1846: Company D, along with rest of regiment, arrives back at Brazos, on their way to Tampico. Men set up camp.
• Dec. 5, 1846: Ridgeway returns to company from furlough in Alabama, brings mail from friends and family in Greene County.
• Dec. 7 -8, 1846: Capt. Moore visits Point Isabel.
• Dec. 12, 1846: Alabama regiment embarks for Tampico aboard steamship Virginia.

Butler, Steven R., ed. The Eutaw Rangers in the War with Mexico: The Mexican War Journal & Letters of Capt. Sydenham Moore and the Mexican War Journal of Pvt. Stephen F. Nunnalee, Company D, First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers (Richardson, Texas: Descendants of Mexican War Veterans, 1998).