Identifier: mexicanwarhistor00inmans (find matches)
Title: The Mexican war: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generals. To which is added, the treaty of peace, and valuable tables of the strength and losses of the United States army
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Mansfield, Edward Deering, 1801-1880
Subjects: United States. Army Mexican War, 1846-1848
Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes Cincinnati, H.W. Derby
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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of infantry, arrestthe attention. Below and above are batteries darklythreatening to open their fire. This captured positionthus commands all the defences but Cerro Gordo. Butthat is above. That can fire down upon every positionwhich could be taken. It is plain, then, that the fort ofCerro Gordo is the key position of all the rest. Thisthe discriminating eye of military science had clearlyseen. Scott sees it, and has prepared for it. Hence thenew road was made, winding, as you see, around thebase of the mountain to our right, but to the left of CerroGordo, so that this citadel of the Mexican camp may bestormed from the flank, and the retreat of the troops bythe National road cut off. Hence, Pillows brigade is toattack their batteries on the front hill rampart, and eithertake them, or divert their attention from our flank move-ment. Hence, the night work of our men, so that ournew hill-fort may command these batteries of the enemy,and at the right moment compel their surrender. All is
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BATTLE CONTINUED. 191 well done. All is ready. The night-watch is past.Twiggs division, which has rested on its arms, is rousingitself at the first light. The gallant artillerymen and en-gineers on the hill cut away the light brush in front oftheir guns, and now the heavy cannon begin their fire onthe hill batteries. Their thunder tones are echoed fromthe mountain sides, and returned from the pieces of theenemy. The division of Twiggs is marching. The vol-unteers of Shields are hurrying on to seize the Jalaparoad in rear of Santa Anna. Cerro Gordo now opens itsplunging fire on Twiggs, and the issue has come. CerroGordo must be stormed. The storm is led by the gallantHarney. They fight under the eye of Scott. Here marchthe rifles, the 1st artillery, the Tth infantry ; and near them,and with them storming the heights, are the 2d and the3d infantry, and the 4th artillery. These are the regularsof Twiggs, and here they march up the rocky ascent, sosteep that they must climb as they go, an

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