Riley kept on serving in the Mexican Army as a changeless major until the point when he resigned on restorative grounds on 14 August 1850 while positioned in Velacruz. John Riley blurs from verifiable record from this date as the US armed force and government would have liked to cover the record of the St Patrick's Battalion from open learning. For about a century they were fruitful in doing as such. Surely, it was not until the 1970s that the records turned out to be completely available to the general population.