Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-10-15
The Terms of Capitulation.
Bravery Of Gen. Worth.
Execution by Capt. Duncan's Command

We received by telegraph, last evening,
the following thrilling news from the
Army, and Immediately laid it before the
public in an Extra Sun.
The N. O.. Picayune has received a
basty memorandum of the operations of
the American Army before Monterey,
from the 18th TO the 2ith of September.
On the 18Th Gen. Taylor arrived before
Monterey, with force Of about 5000 men,
after accommodating the city at about ff.
teen or sixteen hundred yards from the
Cathedral Fort, during which he was fred
upon from ITS batteries. His force was en-
camped at the Walnut Springs, about 3
miles short of the city. This was the
nearest position the army could obtain
supply of water and bread, out Of the reach
of the enemies batteries.
The remainder Of the 10Th was occupi.
ed by the engineers in making recon-
noisance of the city batteries and COM
handing heights.
On the Goth, Gen. Worth was ordered
with his division to move by circuitous
route to the right TO gain the Saltillo road
beyond the west of the town, and TO storm
the heights above the Bishops palace
which vital point the enemy appeared 10
have strangely neglected.
Circumstances caused his halt on the
night of the Goth, short of the intended
position. On the morning of the 2lst he
continued his route, and after an encoun.
ter with large body of the enemies cav
airy and infantry, supported by artillery
from the heights, he repulsed them with
loss, and finally encamped, covering the
passage of the Salfillo road. 1t was here
discovered that besides the fort at the Bsh.
ops palace and the occupation of The
heights about it, two forts on command
ing eminences on the opposite side Of the
San Juan had been fortified and occupied.
These two latter heights we're then
stormed and carried. The guns of the last
fort carried being Immediately turned with
a plunging fire upon the Bishops palace.
On this same morning, the 2lst, the first
division of regular troops under IGen.
Twiggs and the volunteer division under
Gen. Butler were ordered under arms 10
make diversion to the left of the town,
in favor Of the important operations of
General Worth. The twenty inch NOR
tar, and two twenty-four FOUNDER canis-
teIs, had been put in battery on the night
Of the Goth, in ravine about 400 yards
distan! from the Cathedral fort or citadel.
and were supported by the 4lh regiment
of infantry. AT 8 o'clock, A. nj. on the
2lst, the order was given for this battery
to open upon the citadel and town, and
Immediately after the first division, with
the Sd and 18th infantry in advance, under
Col, Garland, were ordered to reconnoitre
and skirmish with the enemy on the ex-
IRENE left of the city, and should prospect
of success to carry the most advanced bat
terry.
This attack was directed by Major
Munsfeld, engineer. and Major Kinney.
qudrtermaster, of the Texas division. A
heavy fire from the first battery was i'm
mediately opened upon the advance, but
the troops soon turned it. entering, and en-
gaging with the enemy in the streets ofthe
city, having passed through an incessant
cross fire from the citadel and the second
batteries, and from the infantry who lined
the prospects, streets, and house tops of
the city.
The rear Of the first battery soon turned,
and the reverse fire Of the troops through
the gorge Of the works killed aud dislodg-
ed the artllerists and infantry from il aud
the building occupied by infantry imme-
diately in its rear.
The first division was followed and sup
ported by the Mississippi and Tennessee
and first Ohio Regiments. the two former
regiments being the first TO site aud occu-
py the fort.
The success Of the day bsre Stopped