Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-12-26

| M. Bradford, Sunbury boy, who took part IN
the battle at Monterey. The letter is published
in the Mssissippisn, and addressed to his father,
Chas. A. Bradford, formely Of this place, who
is now a resident Of Mississippi. His son, WHO
Is quite young man, is an officer Of the Mis-.
volunteers, who condncted themselves so gailsnt.
iy at the storming Of Monterey. After descriS.
ing the situation Of the place and the position Of
our troops. he proceeds TO say: l. ...r
awe are in General Buffers division, com,
poeed Of Kentucky. one Ohio, one Tennessee
and our own regiment, Our work was to car.
| ~ the forts nd the left of The town. We had
Ridgely's battery Of artillery to support us. We
marched towards the centre Of the place and
halted within haifs miis Of IT, sheitering our.
selves from the cnemy's shut in little ravine
that runs across tie plain. W. we're soon how
ever fled off to the left in double quick time,
and became exposee 'oa murderous FIRE from
! the ;hree eastern ierts on our flank, and from
the Black for, in our rear.
The frs, aud srconj shot. killed aud wounded
ak cf our pnr fellows but we msrcI,'d BY them.
Thi, was sufficient TO damp our ardur if any
thing could. We passed on, snd ufier proceed
| ing about half q mile feed to the front ard
pushed on directly towards the three fo,,s on
tho Lett, exposed 70 the fire o' their batteries
without being able to DO any thing until we or.
r,ved in about three hundred Yards, when we
| opened upon them " th our r''e=. We s,rIg.
g!ed on, exposed to m ncessant FIRE Of musket.
! 4 4 r
FIRE from ,weive and eighteen Founders on Out
right Al this time Hugh Pierce was s,oopns
down closc 10 me, in the act of loading his gun
and vas putting on o cap when ball struck
him in the arm. He Tell, as thought. mortal
" wounded. hu, Ind no time TO stop. A few
.teps further on Frank Robinson fell by my eide
! asked him ii he WAS badly wounded he said
he believed he was. hi, added do you push on
found however. he had fallen from the effect.
nf bail passing through his cap. which ha,
stunned him for the moment,
The Raymond Fencibles and our compsn,
entered the first f'rt, hand and hand. Cosne
MrCinng le,diao. We then passed 20 the So
oni f,r abou' twenty PAGES in the rear. and
Co'onel MrClnng entered il. hall broke l.
hand and "a iced into his body-Qe is ,houo'
To be. am harpy to say, rccovprinr.) w
, he'd their forts ,hn. day TAR, Of the regimen
passing into the town. On ,hr,r wny they a.
tempted 10 take The third fcr'. nnd would hay
succeeded, when they received orders 10 IA
back Colonel Davis was a, the head Of ,her
nNf ~ tod pH
The town, fton Which, however he va. Coz,
pect ,o withdraw bis frce From the IT
ond frrt, happened 10 find passage IeadM
TO the top nf sugar mandatory with "
Of our company. where we opened FIRE u[
I the rear fort which va. quickly answered "
I mnskeiry aud ctapa.
We kept up our FIRE fJr aboi. two ho1rs.
/. 'sctrd hy psrsprt, when we we're rccac,
e bring in ammunition for Rdgel"y's gun
hdP. In the evening we were ordered to
I camp, leaving the regulars in charge of the
rrrsd forts. The ncx, doy very little was
1 except Gen. Worth's susck on The Palace, AZ
besu,itul sight il was, and beautifully WAS
J, csrret.
TIE next day <Nednrstay. the 23l) the .
=. rmy having evncua,cd the lhrd fort it rs
hen possess Of, and then entering the t.
:. wc fought from SIX 10 eight hours, whri
w',e called off by order from The Genera
J. the place n,igh, be bnnb,rdee. This
mcdistely begun and coninnrd until IN,
Il morning. 4 parley followed, in ~hlc
terms Of cs nituiation were agreod npou.
u We ere sii "njpying the bes, health
climate is the iresi in lhe werd, and
tropical fruits IN shYndEncr"