Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-11-10


LIEUT.. PopE, the officer referred 10 in
the following extract, of letter relating
incidents of the battle at Monterey, is a
son of the Hon. N. Pope, u. S. District
Judge af our State. The heroic conduct
of this gallant officer, in this, his fist bat
tie, deserves the highest commentator.
Lieut.. Scarritt also is son of a very
worthy citizen Of our State, residing in
Du Page County.--Chicago Jour.
Fierce 1StrUggle.-The most sanguina-
ry OF the various conflicts between the
hostile forces during the three days, seem
to have been on the 21st, of which lively
description is given in the following 4ex.
tract from one of HIS letters in the Plea
ytilae extra ofyesterday. os
Major Mansfield of the Engineers re-
coHnoitered the enemy's works on the
night of the 10Th, but could obtain no very
accurate information, although he ap-
preached very near to some of them on
the heights. On the Goth Lieut.. Scarritt
and Lieut.. Pope were sent out to recon.
noitre the works, Scarritt on the right and
Pope on tho left of the town. The latter
approached and discovered the position
ot'a battery on the extreme left, and was
exposed to fire Of cannon and mEsketry
from Lancers, from which, after finishing
his observations he retired in safety. On
the goth night the mortar and howitzer
batteries were placed in position to PLAY
upon the strong-holds around the citadel.
The action commenced on the morning OF
the 2lst, by the opening ofthese two bat.
teries. Col. Garland's brigade were7or.
dered to move TO the left for the purpose
OF stofming the battery discovered by
Lieut.. Pope the day before, and to occupy
II possible, the lower part of the city.
MAJOR Mansfield, Capt. Williams, and
Lieut.. Pope, were ordered in advance to
select the most available point of attack,
and to direct the movements of the col
umn upon it. Threc companies were
thrown forward as skirmishcrs, and ad-
vanced rapidly towards the works, follow
ed by the Brigade in line of battle, under
a cross fire of artillery from the citadel
aud forts, and a heavy fire of Inusketry.--
The column charged into stree: about
two huadred yards to the right of the
battery, passed the works entirely and eff
fected an entrance into the town. After
advancing rapidly about four hundred
yards beyond the battery, they came i'm
nediatoly in front of a masked battery, Of
artillery, which swept the street complete
~ by its range. The barricades OF the
streets at, sixty yards distance from the
head of the column were lined with Mex.
lean troops, who, entirely covered them.
selves, opened a murderous discharge of
grape and musketry upon the advancing
column. Every house in the street was
pierced, for musketry's and enfiladed the
street in every direction.
Under the fire, the following officers
were killedo wounded: Major Barbour,
81 Infantry, by grape shot, in. the aldo,
mea! Capt, Williams, Typographical En-
gineer, shot thro' the body by a musket
ball, fell in the street, and was dragged
into the doorway of a house by Lieut.
Pope anil shower OF. balls that covered
him with dust. The gallantry ofthe young
officer now in his first battle, is spoken
Of IN admiration by, the Army. Capt.
Williams died the nextday, and was bur
led with the horrors ofwar by the Mexi.
icaatroops, into whose hands he had fal.
len. Lieut.. Terrett, lst Infantry. shot
through the body, died the next day.