Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-11-07

Letter from Gen. BneIers
We copy below extracts Of letter from Gen
Butler 10 near friend in Lonisville. The Lou.
isville Journal states, before giving the letter,
tha, Gen Butler remarks that il IL the opinion
of those Mexican officers who have been taken
prisoners by ours army, that their government
will at once offer to our terms of peace. Gen.
Butler has been charged with rashness In the
fight at Monterey. From the letter below, 1t
would sppcar that he had heard of snch charge
IN camp His bravery Is unquestionable, and
Gen. Taylor speaks in praise of his 'etficient
services"
MosTkasy, Sept 25. 1916
Monterey is onrs but no, without heavy
loss, and my division has probably sustained
more than one half of it, am myself wounded
ons not badly. was struck bys nusket bal.
below the knee 1t entered in trout, grazsd the
bones without entering them, ranged round
through the aesh and came out on the oppo,i,e
side
became faint from loss Of blood and was
compelled TO leave the field after having been ia
1t under heavy FIRE Of grape opa musketry for
three hours have been required by my sur.
seon 10 keep perfectly still since the battle
was IN the art Of iradrg the Ohio Regiment
to storm two OF th- most formidable batteries in
The town. Ranked by stone wall, ten feet high
with deep ditch in front, and covered by a
strong nusketry fcrce in the rear. under com.
plrte shelter There were two other batteries
OF grape slot discharged, ;ha, swept the ground
continually.
Col. Mitchell who commanded the regimen,
OF Ohio volunteers vas wounded about the same
time that was and we then prudenily abandon.
ed the enterprise, as we became convinced that
our loss would have been probably at least ons
hundred more men, had we persevered
hope you will not think acted rashy' I
know that am often rash where involve my.
self alone ; not so, however, when the fate Of
others are et stake
The condition il .etich ws we're placed fully
justified, ifit did rot positively require, US to
make the attempt The pscularty Of our stu.
alton canno, now explain without going into
greater detail than am able TO do.
The battle commenced abou, o'clock A. VI.
and cont nued without Btermis.ion, with vari.
ons degrees Of Intensity, 10: eigh, hours.
| had slmos; 1000 men in the battle tthr Lon.
isvilie Legion having been len TO guard our nor.
'ars and of that number we lest in killed and
wounded about $50
! We took our battery and a house fitted up as
a ortihcation, and assisted the regulars in tax
! ng second Gen. Worth with great gallantry
and equal success, and with far less loss, carried
on his operations on the opposite side Of III,
! town.
| The loss Of the regulars who acted with MS
was nearly proportional 10 ours, as learn, tho
! have not seen the official returns.
Under all circumstances, the terms Of the ca.
! ptuiaticn are favorable 10 us. There are still
severa! strong forts in the hands of the enemy,
when we would have been compelled to take
BY regular approaches or by heavy losses The
plaza is ofiself an enormous fortihcaticn of
tinous houses, with thick stone walls, and all
filed with guns.
They admit they viii have a, least 5000 fight
ing men, while orr part We cannot muster
5000 for duty and have only few heavy gans,
and them We tcck from then.
Never, believe, did troops, both volunteers
and regulars, behave with more calmuess an!
intrepidity. and do no, believe tina, for down.
right srraigh forward hard sgh.ing the battle ot
Monterey has been surpassed
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