Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1847-11-10
sign this simply rs hasty sketch, reserving

a description Of the works, the distinct op-
erations of each division, &c. &C., for more
leisure moment, l cannot particularse -
Both Gen. Pillow and Gen. Shields were
wounded, and Col. Ransom, of the 9th In
Eantry, and Mn or Twiggs, of the Marines,
killed, Lieut.. Col. Baxter, of the New York
Regiment, mortally wounded, and has since
died. Gen. Quitman's volunteer division
in this attack bore the brunt of the battle,
and the first colors given to the breeze from
the citadel of Chapultepec was the regi-
mental colors of the New York Reg iment.
Gen. Shields was wounded in the left arm
with slug in the early par: of the charge
upon the work and retiring O. short time to
have it bound up, Immediately returned to
his command, where he remained until hos
tiIitirs ceased for that night. His rashnces
and imprudence nearly cost him his life,
without adding anything to his fame as
fearless and intrepid soldier. lie is now,
however, entirely convaescent, and designs
leaving for the United States in the course
of two or three weeks. !
Gen. Pillow was wounded in the leg while
leading his command through wood at the
base of Chapultepcc, and for while it was
supposed he would lose it. He is, however,
doing well, and in ehort time will be able
to take command of his division again.
Immediately on taking Chapnlsepcc, and
as soon as his division could be formed, and
resupplied with ammunition, Gen. Cuitman
advanced upon the city by the way Of the
Chapu!tcpec causeway. This was the most
direct route to the city, immediately in
range Of the heaviest batteries and the c!ta-
del of the enemy in the city, and where the
enemy had the principal portion OF bis force
posted. Ihe fire YVES conceded By all who
participated in or witnessed the struggle,
TO be the most severe and incessant that ev-
er body of men advanced under, in any
war of which history furnishes an account.
The several batteries of the enemy thrown
across the causewny, were seve:aIy attack
ed and carried, Gen. Gnitnan always lead
, ing in tho advance. Next he charged upon
the Garta de nelen. fthe gate Of Dclcn) the
main entrance into the city, and at twenty
minutes pas: one O'Clock, carried it. and took
q position within the city of Mexico. v hen
our advance first reached the garjtl, there
being 10 flag among them, Gen. QuitEnan
took q large silk red handkerchief, and fast
enng it to the top Of q rifle, waved it in tr-
umph from the walls Of the city. 4 few
moments afterwards, however, the color
company of the South Carolina regiment
came up, when Lieut.. Selck, Of that rcgi-
ment, run up the Palmetto colors. By Or
der of Gen. Quitman, from q small building
near it, and while CALAMITY waving it amid
, the shouts and huzzas OF the entire division,
he was severely wounded in tho thigh
Thus it will be seen, that both from the ci-
, ta9el Of Chapultcpcc, RS from the walls Of
, the city Of Mexlco. the first American stan.
dards chat were given to the winds, were
f those oft citizen soldier regiT ents-the
, New \ ork and South Carolina, and both o.
, Gen. Shields brigade.
; While these operations were being success.
. fully carried on, Gen Worth, with his divi
sion, advanced upon the city further to the
, left, by the road known as San Coslnc. 1t
, was much further round, far less fortified
than the Chapultepcc road but yet required
q great deal of hard fighting to make an en-
trance into the city, This was accomplish
ed By Gen. Worth, about seven o'clock ir
the evening, who by picking through houses
f and walls, obtained a most excellent posi-
ton for successful rene wal of hostilities ir
the morning. Gen. TwiGgs was withdrawn
from the San Antonio road, during the af
. ternoon OF the 18th. and after the taxing oil
> Chapultepec, Gen. Pillows division parti-
, ciputed but little in the Digit. With this,
send you map. explaining fully the routes
each division OF the army took, the works O
, the enemy, &C., &C.; from it you will be en-
abied to make up any defect that may arise
, in conveying clear idea of our operations
$ by this hurried scrawl.
, During the night of tho 18th, and wher
, our entire Spartan band anticipated a ferc
, er struggle during the ensuing dny, thar
they encountered the day previous, commits
l sioners were despatched from tho city 0
Mexico, on the part Of the municipal author
tiles, to Tacubaya, to agree upon terms 0
capitulaton with the General! in-Chiet.-
They arrived about midnight and continued
their interview until near daylight, without
, accomplishing anything. Gen. Scott in
formed them that he would sign any paper
| in the city that he would cut of it; and that
as they had caused him all tho loss and trou.
BILE they could, lie intended his army should
now march into the city in triumph. unre
, strcted by any terms Of cap,ulation what
, ever. At six o'clock on the morning of the
18th, Gen. Quitman put lis whole column
in motion giving the right to Gen. Smiths
, brigade as an act Of courtesy; and at sever
o'clock, he stacked arms in the main plaza
} and run up the stor-spangled banner from
the National Palace. Some half hour after.
wards, Gen. Worth, with his division, ar.
rived in the main part Of the city; and be.
tween eight and lime the Gcneral-in Chic
and his staff. After receiving the salutes
of his command, he repaired to the Palace,
and his first official act was the proclama-
ton that Maj. Gen. J. A. Quitman was the
Civil and Military Governor Of the city OF
Mexico.
When our flag was first run up from the
Palace, the men engaged in it were fred
upon by the citizens from the tops Of build
ings, who were armed. This gave rise to
a general street fight that las ed all day.
We lost about thirty men, and killed about
three hundred. The day following the
firing was renewed, but in greatly dimin-
ished degree; and from that time, order,
peace and tranquility have prevailed.
The loss of Gen. Quitman's command on
the 18th, was in the aggregate five hundred
and fifty-tive; that of our whole force over q
thousand. So that since we crossed the Rio
Frio and entered the valley of Mexico, our
loss in killed and wounded has been between
| tventv.seven hundred md three thousand