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Th following account of the battle of
BMaaVltta, U from the "Battle Sheet
ef Brotear Jonathan." Th account is
mora full than wa have elsewhere aeen,
aad baaaxl upoa oflkial report. The bat.
tlaof Buesa Vista waa one ol great iae.
quality In point of numbers, and waged
with averity almost unknown In the
aaaaUofwar.
The position of the Americana was a
atroog on. It waa in a deep defile be
tween two mountainous chslns-'wWch
atretcb along on either aide of lb Saltiao
road, and wliich at thai point converge a
paaa of I than two miles in width. On
th west aid or th Sallillo road, ware
dpgullie, impassable either by cavalry
or artillery, and oo which the right wing
of the Americans rested, completely pro
tected by them. On the cost side of the
road were also dean gullies or ravines
worn by lbs loncot that In rainy easoos
pour from tb eastern ranim of mnnniafnw.
Thee ravin extend from the mountains
to tne deep dell through which Ihe road
paaa and vary in length from a mile to
a mile and a half in length, from fifty to
three hundred yard wide, and from thir
ry Io forty feet deep, having steep and pre
etaitou banks, the aide of which are
rough aad covered wiih loon stones.
Taasa atretoh various intervals and In
aa Irrecular manner um n !.
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U aaoujtain! while In front In Ttf
,lWhr wia,daP and abrupt aTTo
"lvCSfa. no. -.
Kg Hmijii a baffle; tb latter coneitted
of OaUael May' tad Captain Stane'a
dragoon', and three light Aeld batlerie
under Captain Washington, Sherman,
ad Bran. Oo tb right of the road,
Land protected la front by th impassible
guiua, war stauooeu uxonri nicivce
Beoond Kentucky iniantry, together with
Bragg'e battery. In th centre on tho
roadVwaa Washington's bait ry, support
ed on each tide by Colonel Hanlln'i Fifth
llliDot Infantry, to which was attached
Captala Conner' company of Texan
volunteer. General lano' brigade,
compoaed of Col. Bowl' Second lndl
aaa. and Col. Lane' Third Indiana infan.
try, aad next, Colooel Davis's Mississippi
Rifle. 8herroens battery was fn the
rear on th right of the road. On the left
war Colonel Yell' mounted riflemen
joining the Miaiaippl rifle, and Colonel
Marshall a Kentucky cavalry on the ex-
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iroroe leu. inc (tsuiv urvKwin, m
Md,,onD..of Arkana. cavalry under
were held In rearve, in rear of the head
quartereofthe commander-in-chief, whose
pocilton wa near the front line to the left
of Washington's battery. At ten o'clock
the advance of the Mexican anny halted
on an eminence overlooking General Tay.
lor'a position. Hie amiy waa composed of
th oldest troops of Mexico, but few of
whom had not previously been engaged in
many battles. Large numbers of them,
beside th civil cciesta of their own
country, had been on the Held of Palo Al
to, Resaca de la Palms, and Monterey.
All had been schooled and disciplined for
month at San Luis Potosi, and though
formerly fed on scanty fare, they were
now provided with ample rations, full c
quipment, and abundance of ammunition.
Their number, according to tho account
of Santa Anna himself, was twenty thous
and. They had seventeen pieces of can
non, war officered by twenty-lour gene
rals, all selected for their skill and distin
guished service, and were commanded
and led on by the President of the Repub
lic, th ablest general of Mexico, and by
himself styled "Antonio Lopex Santa
Anna, Tat NarouuKt or tri Wist."
On lb other hand were four thousand
(bur hundred men, but one quarter of
whom had ever seen a battle. Moat of
their officers had six months previously
been called from the various walks of civ
il life, and tbr were but three generals
in command. But it was the Twx.itt.
sxcomd Day or KtsiCAxr, the day that
save birth to Washington, whose memory
quickened the stern resolve of these brave
men to commemorate this sacred dav
with deed of valor and heroism that
should live forever in th pages of their
country's history.
soon after his arrival on the field lien
eral Taylor received a note from Santa
Anna, who informed him that he was sur
rounded by twenty thousand men, but
that out of "consideration" and "esteem"
for him he would give him an opportnnity
to surrender, and would wait one hour fo'r
him to make up his mind; General Tay
lor with a much unconcern as though he
had received an invitation to dinner, in
stantly returned this polite and brief, but
memorable reply.
Htad-Quaiiert Army of Occupation, i
CHar.,Utna YUUx, HO. 'it, 1847. )
Sta: In reply to your note of this date,
summoning me to surrender my forces at
discretion, I beg leave to uy that f de
cline acceding to your request.
With high respect, I am sir,
Your obedient servant,
Z. TAYLOR.
Major.Gtntral U. S. Army, Com' ding.
A detachment of Light Infantry was
now wen moving from the right wing of
the Mexican army towards the mountains
with th evident intention of gaining the
heights and turning the left wing of the
Americans. On perceiving this move
ment Colonel Marshall, who bad been or
dered by General Wool to advance to "the
front and left," now crossed a deep ra
vine in front, and took position at the ter.
mioating base of a spur or small ridge,
about one hundred feet in helsht. that nm.
jected from the mountain towards the west
and right of the American line. From
the same point in the mountain, and dl
verging at angle of about thirty degrees
from the line of the ridge, was a second
noge oi aooui me same extent which ter
mlnatedin a broad plain stretching to.
ward the Mexican encamoment. In rear
or this plain was a deep ravine extending
iium in angle between tho two ridges
westward Io the SalUllo road. On the
south edce of this ravine, on an eniinane,
near the Sallillo road, wa stationed a
Mexican battery or sixteen-pounders, sua.
taioed by a regiment of engineers, while
two lighter batteries were planted to the
right, in the rear and to tho right or east
ofthe main battery was drawn up the
mexicsn army wnn tne iniantry In front.
Far in the rear in a safe position near the
road were the head quarters of Santa
Anna
Colonel Marshall atonce perceived that
this second or fronR-ridge, which com
manded a view oi tne whole Mexican ar
my, was an important position, and was of
opinion that tne enemy would first at'
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tempt to gain it before commencing tho
main operations of Ihe fight. This was
the key to General Tavlor's Dosiilon.
and should have been secured at all haz
ards. The American right was impreg
nable. The centre wa well protected
anocouio oe reached directly from the
suu wuiu iw rcacnea uireciiv imm ihi.
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fnglyaent forward a battalion of hU rifle.
men, dismounted, which thy were in
structed to maintain, and to resist every
attempt to turn the American left. Col.
Marshall was now reinforced by a batlal.
ion of the Arkansas riflemen, under Lieut.
Colonel lloane, and a btlalii4i of rifle
men, from the Indiana brigade, under Ma
jor tiennsn. At th same tinw tieneral
Lane with CoIoimI Uowlen's second Indi
ana regiment, and a aecliou contisting of
three piece from Washington' battery,
under Lieutenant O'llrien, took up a po
sition in front, with Colonel Marshal, to
prevent the enemy from coming around by
tho base of th ridge and to the right oUlw
Kentucky riflemen of the heiiihla. The
whole of this force employed on fRJ left
waa under the command of Colonel Mar
shall, during this day. Whilo in this po
sition, awaiting ths attack of the enemy
whose battalions of light inl'sn'.ry were
now moving forward towards the moun
tain under th protection of a fire of
hells on th American rillemen, a staff
officer communicated to Col. Marshall
that lien. Wool, apprehensive thst the
corns on the second ndg might be cut oil,
wi.hcu it recalled. Scarcely had the ri
flemen rejoined the regiment when tteue-
rat Wool rode up and explained that his
views hsdbeen misapprehended by the aid;
he only intended to apprize the colonel of
their danger. This mistake caused to the
Americana the lost of this important post,
lion, and gave into the enemy the key of
their left flank, againit which the nuin
course of battle was oonerouently direct -
ru. toionei Narsnau enueatured to reo.
llfy the error by sendimr forward a coin -
panvof the Indiana battalion to occupy
the height just abandoned, but they failed
in the execution of this eutrrpnse, and thb Mexican ranks sa to hold them at once in formed In a gorge or th mountain, and
Mexican infantry had now reached the i complete check. At every discharge he then darted forward at full speed for the
base, and were ascending on the opposite made openings in ibeir ranks, and caused baggage train, which then appeared at
side of the front ridge, and were soon on theni to waver and fall hack. The brow Bucna Vista. Th hoof of their bene
the height which the Kentucky riflemen of the hill Impeding the lire of his tmia-1 thundered along th plain, when on a sud
hsd.bui half an hour previously occu- kets, which were also at too great distance den the head of their column quivered and
pied. to produce that deadly elfett uhicli he de. fell back, sending a shock through their
It was now half-past three, when the sired, lieneral Lane ordered the battery ' entire ranks. They had met within ality
firing commenced U-lwecu the Mexican, and men loan adtsmed position and yarde a deadly shower of hail from the
troop and the Kentucky and Indiana rtile-' more to the right, when O'llrien renewed t carbines and rifles of Colouel Marshall
men, who were now stretched along the1 his quick and deadly assault of canister ( and Yell. Enraged at being stunned by
first ridge towards tho summit of the end shell. The Mexicans were reinfurc- a firs from so small a corps, thoy rallied,
mountain. Both parties, as the firing 'ed, snd every gspmsde in their ranks was and madly plunging forward were met by
continued, ascended higher and higher. cloned n soon ss made, end advanced in the four hundred horsemen of Marshall
The Mexicans occupy log the more eleva-1 fee of he destructive missilea of O' i and Yell, who charged at full speed on
ted ridge, generally over-shot their mark. ' Brien. At this moment the Indianlan who the Mexican column, dashinit it to pieces.
doing but little execution in the American
ranks, while the riflemen with their fatal
aim, from the heights, and Colonel How-
lea's Indismsns from the base of the
ridge,
ant forth their destructive balls sweeping
rping
down large numbers ol the loe. While
the action was thus going on in front, Col.
.Msrsnaii am two dismounted compar les -
to scale the mountain in the rear, ahd
meet tne enemy on meir nam. iney
camo within lire of the Mexican troops
who had now attained the summit of the
shelf in the side of the mountain above
which the steep was inaccessible when
darkness having coma on, all the troop
were recalled to tho plain, and the fight- ( or disabled. Ilia other pieces being in hut -Mexican cavalry lied through the rank
ing ceased. The Mexicans had now out- .little better condition, he returned to Cap-1 they were fired on by th Indiana rifle
flanked the left of Colonel Marshall's com- tain Washington and was furnished with i men and others that left the field, and had
inand, sndhsd thrown two regiments of' another battery of two t iounders. , been relied at Ifuena Vista by Major Mon-
light troops on to the mountsin; holding' Colonel Marahall, perceiving the retreat roe, who wa in command ofth artillery,
the key which on the following, day is to of the Indianians, thus leaving him de The Mexican escaped to the mountains
let in the brigade of Santa Anna to the . Inched from the main body, and ihe ene- on the rigliif
attack of the left flank of General Tay. my thrratning to intervene, und tworegi. One more desperate eflurt was made on
kMi tnd but Mven wounded. General ,
ior s army, m una action we naa none ,
Taylor with Colonel Davis's riflemen, and
May's second dragoons at the close of this
day's fight repaired to Ssltillo to look after
General Minon. Colonel Marshall's com-1
nisnd remained during Ihe night at tho po-
sition iney occupied in tne morning at tho
bsscol the first ridge.
General Taylor placed Ssltillo in com.
mand of Majr Warren of the Illinois vol
unteers, with tour companies and a batte
ry, two twcnty.four pound howitzers, un
der Captain Webster. Captain Shover
commanded a light battery of one gun,
without the walls, and with two compa
nies of the Miaiuipp! rifles guarded the
train. General Minon with liis Cavalry
brigade of Lancers did not venture to at
tack ihe city, and a soon as ho made his
appearance was driven to the mountains
by the light battery of Lieutenant Shover
and a handful of men under Captain
Webster. Santa Anna in his official die
patch, states that General Minion was in
structed to attack Ibe rear of General
Taylor on the field of Buena Vista, and
to his failure in fulfilling thea instructions
he attributed the frustration of hie plan for
the destruction of General Taylor and
his army. General Minon replied, that
he had accomplished all that was required
of bjm, and that he was stationed in the
rear, to cut off the retreat of Genorat
Taylor and finish the work of completely
annihilating his army. He staled, that
owing to ihe defeat of Santa Anna, in
stead of General Taylor, there was con
sequently, nothing for him to do.
The American army passed tho night
of the 33d under arms ready to renew the
battle on the morrow.
The eve of battle is always a solemn
scene, but on thianlcht iho beans of this
little band of men must have experienced
emotions to which the breast of thn hire
ling soldier must be a stranger. These
four thousand brave men bd bul jusl
left their home were itrangcr to ihe
an of war, and had uever before beheld a
hostile army. Arrayed aeainsl them
wero twenty thousand men, the flower of
Ihe Mexican army, the vetrans of which
could boast of twenty battle without hav.
iog over suffered defeat. In face of such
a foe, what was to be the fale of theee vol
unteers? Were tbey, on Ihe morrow to
fall, aa brave men fall, and leave their
bone to whiten on the Mexican eodt or
ware Ihey to rejoice In the triumph of vlo
tory I
At dawn the next morning, Ihe Mexi
cans having ban reinforced, displayed
tweniy.Ave hundred men on th acond
rldg asd th eurmnit at which tb two
ridga unite, under la ooaaaaad of Gea.
Ampudia. They had alee succeeded In
planting a battery Martha summit of th
second rldg. Thy at one opened thalr
Are, while Colotv! Marahall nt hi dis
mounted rilUnan. together with th bat
tallon of Major Gormon and that also of
major Trail or uoionel iiiswirs Second
Illinois, up the gorge In rear of the Aral
ridge, which th enemy soon seised; oo
cupyiug the same position held by the A.
mcrlcan riflemen during tho action of th
preceding day. Colonel Marahall'a men,
though but a few, stood Arm as the rooks
of the mountain, and poured intotha Mex.
lean troops an incessant shower of deadly
rifle balls which continued for two hour.
Th action commenced also in the centre
soon after sun rise. At this time a large
body of infantry and lancers moving on
the main road were renulssd by Waahlna.
ton's battery and Colonel Hardin's First
lllinoisisns. hailing In this attempt, a.
neither demonstration wss msdeun tho line
in front. At about nine o'clock a force of
about four thousand infantry, supported
bv a large body of cavalry, wss seen to
sscend the hank of the ravine in front,
near thebaic of the mountsiu, and pro
ceeded towards the puiitionuf lien. Lane,
who, with I olonel Howies s Imlisnian
and Lieut. O'llrien'a (ainee t'aptsin) hat.
tery was atalioned on Ihr Immediate right
of Cotonel Marshall, lirneral Lane ad.
vancadtn meet this force and was met
with a fierce shower of musketry, and a
callins discharge of shot and shells ixured
Into his left from tho battery planted on
1 the mountsin duriuu the precrdinv niitht.
lieneral l.ane s ciminsu returned this
1 fire In a moat callsnt Kuniner for mine
time; O'llrien'a artiller), wllliln musket
' range, doing such fearful execution in the
had advanced with O'llrien under a gall-
ins fire on their left from the mountain
battery, ami against the musketry in front,
turned and fled in disorder, inof of them
relirincto Buena Visla and snltillo, and
not enterinc again Into the ingagemeiit.
Great efforts were made by the officers to
rally the retreating men, and Colonel llow-
lea succeeded in sating a few companies
trom dissrace. who fouuht with hiinbrate.
ly during tho remainder of the day.
Lieutenant O'Brien bemir left alone, re-
. tired to the line, lea lug one of his pieces,
! a Tour pounder Mexican gun, all the hor-
ses'and cannoneers of which were killed
menu pressuie on tlie rmiil ol tnc rillemen
in th mountain, while the enemy had al.
'ready turned their left, recalled them,
J when he, with Col. Yell' cavalry being
pressed back, commenced retiring. Ilia
men falling into some disorder, he sud
Col. Yell resolved to charge on the M"i.
cans, when tho rig .. ol tint Arkansas
corps fell back in disorder to lluena Vis.
ta, where they were joined also by Mini I
of the Indiana and Illinois
rillemen Irom
the mountain.
Colonel Marshall and Y
good order along the lane
II retired in
of tha moun-1
tain, driven by an overwhelming force of
infantry and cavalry, and having crossed
the three ravines that intersecteiTGeiieral
Tsylor.s position, were now joined by
the Krntucky rifles from the mountsin
who had mounted and retired firing in.thn
face of the foe. Colonel llincirsllluiois
ians who had previously been ijationcd on
the left, supDortodTiyvaheriiisn'a battery,
linding thsmeelvcs outllsnKcd by the mass,
cs of infantry and cavalry thai were pour
ing with shouts of triumph along the bate
or the mountain, were compellid to fall
back.
Aalhe Indianians retired, the Mexican
column swelling to six or seven thousand,
had advanced and planted a battery of
three pieces, at the baso or tho mountain
on the extreme of ihu American left, and
commenced an enfilading firo on the cen
tral portion of their line, which waa ro.
turned by Washington's and Bragg' bat.
leries, Ihe latter of width, together with
McKee'a Kentuokians, had early in Ihe
day been called from Ihe right to the left
of the road. Tho rapid and severe fire of
these batteries pressed the advancing col.
umn of the Mexicans cloa Io Ihe baa of
the mountains, in a line perpendicular to
thai of the Americans. Il was these
masses of Mexican Iniantry and Cavalry,
driving bkek iho Indianians, and O'Brien,
Colonels Marahall, Tell and Jiisall, and
fast gaining the rear in immense force,
when General Taylor with May 'a dra
goon and the Miasislppi rifle arrived
from Sallillo.
Now commenced tho severo fighting of
Ihe day. Hitherto the American had
met with almost no loss in killed and
wounded. They hsd fought generally
with moat determined bravery, and had in
fllcted aver loss on th enemy. Yet
they bad lost th strength of their position
on th Uft and their left flank wa turned
by masses of infsutry and cavalry out
numbering their whole force. There waa
but one thing that could eeve the four
thousand Americans from utter deatruotion
by the twenty tboueand man of Benia An
nai that wae a deUrmlaalioa to lathi till
dUhorvletet7eauM ooea. Aad tbey
did oo Aght, and viotory did come.
Ocraral Taylor ca arriving en th fltld
atonoMtColcIDavi with hit rifles
to th Uft, waMro balng Joltwd by Colonel
iwivv wiiii m nnatiii wi Htm lAnmsMuiua
thay at one attacked and rapulaad on of
th Mexloan ooluma. Mora to th right
Colo MoKeo'aKaatuoklanaudUwtwo
Illlooi rgimnU and Captains Sherman '
and Bragg' batttrisa war pouring In a
aver Are on th Mslcan columns, and
regaining frooytham th position which
hadWn lost Colooel Marshall and
Ylirnd-Cotool May with hi three
quadronsand aaectlonof artillery under
Lieutenant Reynolds to th left and rear
held the advance of th enemy lu oheok.
Colonel Marshall with hie regiment and
th bur Arkanaaa companies which ware
all that ware I A to Colooel Yll, rplled
chargaof lanoers which were supported
by a aver Are from a Isrg body of in.
nrntry inscoeaible to the cavalry. At
the aana lima Col. Davis, having been re.
inforoedby Col. Um'i Third Indianiau
and Uhermaa'a battery, dashed up to the
mountains, and hurled such fierce, rapid
and deadly aimed volleva iuto lb Moxi.
can itclumn of fcur thousand men ad
vancing rapidly to the rear and towards
the Hallillo road, that they staggered and
reeled aa gap after gap wa opened in
their ranks. Bragg, at this moment com
ing up, added the destructive diacbargee
of his battery, beating down the Mail-
I cans by platoons, when they fled in ler
. ror and disorder up the monntain steep
and into the ravineer and along the base of
me mountain io ins positiun occupied uy
them in the morning. ..
I The two lliouaod lancer of General
Torrejon, during th disorder of thie rout,
land scattering half of it back Into the
' mountains and ravines. The other half
rallied, and being cut off from their main
uody, and pushed utT towards Uuena Vis.
ta. in too charge all order having been
loet, ioiouei 1 en wmi e party ol hie men
h a party i
reformini
dashed again into the reforming column,
inrowuig n inio a uisoruony retreat, in
this last gallant charge Colonel Yell fell
mortally wounucu oy a lance wnicn en
tared his mouth ant
his face. The rout
and tore oft on side of
out of the retreating col.
' umn waa completed by Colonel May with
his dragoon and two piece of Rsynolds's
artillery, near Buena Vista, and aa the
tne leu
ft a I.... I lu r !....- ..!...
rd on the brigade of General Lane, com-
poaed of Col. Davia'e Miaisslppi rifles
and Third Indianians, who were thrown In
the form nf a V, the opening towards the
enemy. On came lb lancer at full
speed, and when within about lerenty.
yards, Iho rules and muskets of the V,tO'
gather with the batteries of Sherman,
poured into them a destruvtiv fire that
unt inem into a disordered Might. 1 hie
succeaful fire, together with Brags' bat
. try, otaring resistance nearer lb main
body of the enemy, to Buena Vista, caus
ed a larg cavalry fore to be cut off and
surrounded. At this moment Santa Anna
sent an officer under u white Asg, desiring
to know what GenerW Taylor wanted.
General Wool atlejniled to carry an en
iwer toTne enemy s, llnci, but returned as
they would notcesan their fire. Accord,
ing Io an account, written by an officer,
Lieutenant CrirWde n waa sent to de.
mand Ihe surrenderor this detached force.
bul Ihe Mexican office pretending not to
understand his inlsaion had him taken
blindfolded before Santa 'Anna, who in
quired what Gsnersl Taylor wanted.
Lieutenant Crittenden replied, "He has
ant me to demand your immediate sur.
render." When this extraordinary de
mand .was translated Io Ihe Mexican, he
raised his head and eyebrow in utter as
tonishment, at the extremity and presump
tion of aueb a message, and replied that
he would eipeel General Taylor to sur
render in an hour, or ha would destroy all
bis force. Lieutenant Crittenden' reply
waa, "uiNiiaL t Attoa nivxa ouaxx.i
bias."
By this rate of Santa Anna's, thn Are
of ihe Americana waa suspended, and
lliua tho detached cavalry waa enabled to
join Ihe main body, which had now been
driven baok along Ihe baa or the moun
lain to ihe front ofthe line occupied by
Ihe American in the asorninv. ltarlne:
this momentary pcaoe, Santa Anaa had
drawn up hi reeenree of infantry, about
area thousand at reek, under a ravine,
and arranged hia cavalry for a ooooeotr.
led charge on tha oatr th routed for.
oea oa hie right being ordered first to
oharea oa tha oantre alio. Ha bad also
eeUblssbed a twntyfour poundar batury
in front. . .
General Taylor bow ooaoeotraiM in nt
rnati Ralaaal IfaKaa'a Kantuealan. Colo.
aU Hardin' and Bia.ll' IlllnoUlana,
aad Cotoael Davls'e Mlaeiaalpei rifle
Lieateaeat O'Briea waa forwarded to
mat tha okaiwe from the enemy' right
whloh poured alone with great fury, Colo.
nl Bleair llliaouiaa ware oroorea to
kuuMOft,and they repelled a charge of
. a ... .... T a .1 a.
Uaoera, while O'Brien fought with deeper,
anon, rtoia in owumn in cnecx. i ney
ware reinforced, but O'Brien, knowing
Ihla waa th only artllUry.oa th ground,
Sharmaa and Bragg not having lira to
ooma round from the Uft, resolved to fight
to th last moment, and MoriAo hia pi
cm for th afty of tha other troops, Ha
fought thm until all hi men and horse
ware dlabld or killed, and until thaatw
my had approached within a aw yard,
wha h abandoned hi guns, and retired.
Santa Anna ant forward his rsarvs
from th front When, on th other sld,
Sherman and Bragg coming up, a univer
sal and dearuotlv Are waa poured forth
from both aides. Washington' Sherman'
and Bragg'a baltari were all biasing
,forlh their fierce and rapid tollla In on
almultsneoui Are, white tit four regiment
delivered shower of Iron nail into the op
posing ootumns. Th Anal roeult of vlo
tory or defeat to ellhr army, depended on
this last action, and th effort on both
eldee were redoubled. At length th
Mexican began to waver, when the Ken
tueklanaandllllnoislana charged forward,
driving the Immena mum of Infantry
and cavalry before them. Th Illinois!
ans passed around the bead of a ravine In
front, while Ihe Kenlucklans crowed il
deep bed. A they rose on th opposite
bank they formed and delivered several
Area, when finding themselves beyond sup
porting distance, and being raked in their
right flank by a battery, they were una.
ble to lupport th Mexican columnt which
had rallied and returned charging on them
with fury. The Kenlucklans and lllinoi
sisns also retired down th banka of tha
ravine, where I hoy wero overwhelmed by
a shower of balls. Here fell Colonel Jno.
J, Hardin of the first Illinois volunteers,
Colonel R. W. MoKee of the Kentucky
regiment, and Lieutenant Colonel Henry
Clay, Jr.
'fills rally of ihe Mexican column waa
completely checked by the artillery, when
the battle ctoeed, and the Americans slept
on the Aeld. The loss on ihe American
eide waa V07 killed ; 4A0 wounded, and
33 missing. Th Mexican low In killed
and wounded wae estimated at 'J,(I(XI.
Santa Anna admitted hia loss to be I.WK).
He left at least ACM) dead on the field.
The next day Santa Anna's army retired
towards Sftn I.ouis Potosi, but a small
fragment of which reailird thither.
Large numbers nrished and deserted by
Ihe way. The effect of this battle was
important lathe Americans. Il complete,
ly destroyed the "Army of the North,"
an.l ellri luellv broke up all military oper
ations nf ihe Mexicans in thst quarter.
liALLANTar I'ontentlle, assisting at
the marriage of Madame llelvrlius, did
not ccaso to whisper the most gallant
Iriilif.a. M.. mm. tikuiu-lila kfl.r Iim ttnaa.!
before her without perceiving her. Madame,
,vnlus, remarking his distraction, said
to him, "how lighlly should I esteem your
fiallantrics, since you pass me wilhoul
oiiking al inn 1"
"Madame," replied the amtable'idd man,
"If I had looked al you, I should nol have
sed you."
To rub book leaves upon tho back of a
child, and beat in the learning. To edu
cate young ladies, ia to lei (hem know all
about the oligiti, the imomiti, the ifiitli,
and the lijitki, the titki, and Ihe mufirir;
but nothing about the ingi such as sew.
ing, kiiilLing, washing, baking, making,
and puddnyr.
(XrThc Cincinnati Knquirer has thn
following good 'un.
Why is dancing like new milk 1 ll'yn
give il up I Because il strengthens tho
Cat.vts.
Sksiocm (.'omitirRAtioM. An unmar
ried lady on Ihe wintry side of fifty, hear
ing of the mirriage or a young lady, her
friend, oheerved with a deep and aentl.
nScntal sigh, "Well, I suppose it's whal w
must all come to."
fXrSomebody advertises in an exchange
paper a lost wallet, "belonging to a gen
tleman made of calfskin !
A Poihtkd Blow. An invalid ant for
a physician, and after detaining him for
some lime with a description or hia peine,
achfts, etc, he thus summed up :
" Now, doctor, you havo liumbugged
me long enough with your good-for-nothing
pills and worthless ayrupe they
don't touch Ihe real difficulty. I wish you
Io strike ihe caua of ,ny ailment, if it la
in your power to reach ft "
" It shall be done," said the doctor, at
the same time lifting his cane and demol.
Ishlng a decanter of oik that stood upon
the sideboard.
Snoiino. " What harm." aid Mr.
Puffwell, 'M there fn a pipe?" "Nun,
that I noa on." replied a regular down
easier, who ha morn of th philosopher
in him than Ihe cho!r, 'eoept eatokia'
leads to drinkin," and, drlnkln' lead to
drunkennea.e-Now perhsps drunken,
nee rolgbt.atoh on bile, and Iho bile give
ye the 'siiipoy, and 'pepy give you Ihe
consumption, and consumption fetch oa
death, tbal'aall. Now, Mr. Whiffen, put
all tbm thing Inyour pip and smoke 'em.
(KTA Yanka boy had a whole Dutch
cheea at before hlrr by a waggish friend,
who however gave him no knife.
"This la a funny oboea, unele Joe, but
whereehallloutiH"
"Oh," aid thi grinning friend, out il
where you like."
"Very well," eald the Yankee, ooolly
puttlna It under hia arm. I'll luat out It
at horn."
OWomen are prevented from ere.
ing tne frontier, into ateiioo, least tbey
ehould oonvay 'aid aad comfort' to ilia
a .eaa '..
enemy, la.the shape ol bustle tJM with
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