Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-05-13
FROM THE ARMY OF INVASION.

nit furnishes Igs With brief accounts of a
bloody battle foughl at Cerb G ordo, on the
18th April, in which ihe~Arnerican army I'M
der Gen. Scott was signally victorious,
though not without severe loss on our side.
Gen. Shields was MORALLY wounded; Gen.
Pillow slightly wounded. Major Sumner
was shot in the head by musket ball, but
will recover. Capt. Mason of the rifles lost
leg. Lieut.. Ewell badly wounded. Lieut..
McLane wounded, but not severely. Pier
son of The 4th wounded, also Leuis Gibbs,
Maury, Kervis; Lieut.. Davis badly Capt.
Patton slightly.
The conflict commenced by the advance
under Gen. Twiggs, and severe but not de-
cisive battle ensued.
Shields, with the Wabash and Illinois re-
gimenl, went to the aid Of Twlggs-,he VIC
tory was complete.
Colonies Baker, Childs, Harvey, Riley,
Foreman, Haskell, all behaved beyond all
praise.
On the 18th the Mexicans took possess
sion of hill in front of all their works,
from which TO dislodge them Gen. Twiggs
ordered the rifles, under Major Sumner.
with some attachments of artillery and in
fantry, including Capt. Williams company
of Kentucky and Capt. Majors company
of Pennsylvania volunteers, To the charge.
II was done III style, but the loss was Sc
we're. The Mexican defence was obstinate.
The rifle regiment suffered terribly In
Col HaskeIl's command, Lieut.. F. B. Mel
son, and Lieut., C. G. Gill, both from Mem
phis, were killed; Lieut.. Col. Cummings,
Major Farquharson, Adj't Halle, Lieulenanls
Yearwood, Forest. Murray, and Sutherland
were wounded. The regiment went into
action with less than 400 men, and lost 70
killed and wounded.
This engagement had not been contem-
plated. Every arrangement had been made
hv Gen. Scott TO commence the attack on
the morning Of the 18th and orders issued
accordingly. The Mexicans were posted in
Gibraltar from which il was necessary to dis
lodge them. !
The attack was made-the victory is COM
pleie.
La Vega on the 9Th commanded the Ger
70 Gordo. Ascertaining that night from a
deser,er, that the main attack was to be
made on the right of their line, he changed
places with Gen. Vasquez, in order to meet
the assault, which was made there by Gen
Pillow. LIE Vega defended the post until
! the Mexican lines were completely turned.
Nfhe Mexican loss upon the heights was
awful the ground in places covered with
) the dead. Amongst the bodies were found
hose of General Vasqnez, and near him
oak Palseios, mortally wounded. Their
bss in O. retreat was terribly severe. Mr..
kendall, who writes the account, SAYS he
thinks five hundred will cover our entire
PISS. Col. Baker who charged on the last
bfi taken, had forty-6ve men killed or
landed out of but portion of his regi-
Int. Lieut.. Cowardin killed, Lieutanant
alurphy MORALLY wounded. Lieut.. johnson
gounded three times, thigh amputated,
cuts. Scott Freeman. and Mal,by, wound
lpta Anna lost all his valuable personal
IN leg. lie narrowly escaped bv
ltIS q SouuiC SAuiC oHu tdhal1S W tuG
Fral. The dinner prepared for him
Ell in haste. His coach is taken and
ropraled to the use of Major Sumner.
Gen. La Vega behaved nobly, but is again
Ken prisoner. His brother, colonel is
brtaliy wounded.
3There were Mexican generals and colo
nels enough taken to command an abstract
army.
Gen. La Vega and Janero, with fourteen
other Mexican officers, who refused parole,
reached Vera Cruz on the 2lst under charge
of Capt. G. w. Hughes (Top. Engineer -
They will be sent to the U. States
The most of the prisoners will be paroled
A postscript gives CLEAN of hope that
General Shields may possibly survive. He
was wounded leading his brigade to storm
one of the enemy's furtherest works. Gen.
Pillow and all of Col. Haskel's field officers
bu, himself, were wounded in slorming the
Notifications under La Vega.
/ The rifles, HaskeI's Tennessee volun-
1teers, the lst artillery, the 9TH infantry and
Capt. Williams Kentucky volunteers suffer-
ed most.
At one O'Clock Gen Twiggs' division,
who had been in the hardest of the fight,
was pursuing the flying enemy towards ia
lapa. Gen. Worth allowed Pierson, who
commanded the forts near Plan del Rio, ff-
teen minutes TO consider He surrendered
Internationally. Gen. Worth's division
took up the line of march for Mexico on the
morning Of the l9,h,-Gen. Scott was to
follow al noon.
LATE FROM MONTEREY.
The schooner Heroine arrived at New
Orleans on the 29h nltimo from the Brasos.