Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-04-13

and fallen back on second strong work at
Santa Martha. Gen. Scott, who now assumed
command, Immediately directed Twigg's d1vi-
sion to advance upon the left, and to arrest and
cut off all the retreating forces of the enemy,
while he ordered Gen. Pillow to lead Cadwal-
LADDERS brigade to advance and ass ault the enc
my upon the rig ht and in front. sA
! Twigg's division soon became desperately
engaged with the enemy's left at Santa Martha
Pillows division, in the effort to get to the
battle ground, got entangledamong some ditch
es, wide, and waist deep in mud and water.
/ (2) The general dismounted from his horse, and
plunging through called upon his column to
follow him, which they nobly did. He adj
vanced rapidly with it, in front of the enemy's
main work, and finding ii would be cut down
4 by the terrible fire of gra pc and canister which
swept down the rear, he turned 1t into the
field on the right, to attack the main battery on
its left flank. Here his forces and Gen. Worth's
were joined and went forward and CALAMITY
Carried this work ~ in conjunction. During
the advance upon this work the general him
selfwa knocked TO his knees By the conclusion
of a cannon ball which bruised his head. In
the course Of the action he shot Mexican Off
Ger and killed him with his pistol.
| The enemy's battery being taken, Pillows
and Worths divisions pursued the enemy until
they came under the fire of the enemy's guns
from the battery at the very gates of the CT
ty. (4) la
During the battle in which the first work
with % pieces of artillery was taken, Santa
Anna was present all the time upon the field
of battle, commanding ~ his forces in per
son. t
Our total loss was heavy, amounting to kill
ed and wounded to about l6) S00-the enc
my's to near 1000. In the two works the en-
my's forces amounted to at least 10000 men.
His positions were remarkably strong and well
fortified, and in every case he was driven out
of his works at the point of the bayonet.
The generals we'll devised plans of battle
his judlcious disposition of his forces-his
GOODNESS and daring during the whole of this
terrible battle ~ is the subject of universal
congratulation among his friends, and general
| remark with all.
Yours, respectfully.
Which false and scandalous letter, article, or
communication, is, as far as it goes, almost an
exact duplicate of the printed one signed lie
onidas," the subject of the preceding specified
ton, and therein alleged to have been dictated
or procured to be written by the said Pillow
in order by one, the other, or both of those let
tiers, articles or communications, falsely to
magnify his, the said Pillows own generalship,
prowess, and valor, at the expense of the other
commanders who were in the same fields of
COnreras and Churubusco: and at the expense
of truth, justice and honor, in the same par
ticulars designated III the proceeding specifca-
ton.
THE fourth specification alleges, that, some
time after the battle of Chapultepec, Gen. Pill
low falsely stated or insinuated, III the pres
ence of one or more American officers, that,
but for him, Gen. Scott would not have hazard
ed that battle, whereasin fact the whole plan
of operations was Gen, Scott's, Gen. Pillow,
at consultation of officers, expressing pre-
ference for different plan, having, at that
very time, privately secured at least one res
ponsble witness, BY whom, in case ola disas-
trous issue to the then meditated attack upon
one or more of the outer or immediate defences
of the enemys Cal ital, he, the said Pillow,
would be able to prove that he had declared to
the said witness or witnesses, his own convic-
ton or opinion to be altogether averse to any
offensive operation whatever at that uncture,
and decidedly in favor of taking up purely de-
fensive positions for an endefnite period-that
is TO say, until the arrival of reinforcements
from the United States, of the approach on
which, even as near as Vera Cruz no officer
present, at the said conference, then had, or
pretended to have, any init mation whatever |
The fifth specification is that Gen. Pillow,
in his public despatch in regard to the battle of
| Cbapultepec represented that he caused him
self, after being wounded, to be borne along,
with the continued attack upon the castle in
the face OF the enemy's fire. whereas, in fact,
on receiving a confusion on one of his legs or
ankles, he placed himself in perfect security
near the same spot and remained there till the
close of the battle.
The sixth specification is that Gen. Pillow
in communication to the War Department,
represented himselfas having opposed the ar
mistice, whereas, in fact, on the morning of the
22d of the said August, when it was in ques-
ton to appoint American commissioners TO
meet commissioners on the part of Mexico, to
negotiate an armistice. was / OF only III favor
Of such negotiation, but was willing to become
one of the American commissioners for that
purpose.
We have not room to notice the other spe-
cifcations.
Gen. Pillow mentioned as friends to assist
in conducting his case Lieut.. Col. Duncan and
Maj. Breckenridge.
FIFTH DAY-March 81.
The judge advocate read the first charge,
which related in part to the letter of Leonidas.
The Judge advocate then read list of the
witnesses on both sides.
Gen. Scott then submitted portion of the
evidence, which wasin the shape OF docu
ment which was said to be procured from the
hands of Gen. Pillow, and bearing upon the
letter of Leonidas. This document is marked
No. l.
Gen. Pillow, being called upon to know if
he recognised that document, said he acknowl-
edged some of the interineations to be in his
handwriting. The following he acknowledge
es to be written by him: Battery" dit"
.ground," ..generai,'' conjecture, ''want,"
'.universal." He (Gen. P. admitted that said
document had been handed to Mr.. Freaner,
knowing him to be correspondent of the
New Orleans Delta Gen. Scott requested
that the admission made by Gen. Pillow be re
corded.
Gen. Pillow said that in subsistence the mat
ter contained in that document was true. and
that the fact of his shooting Mexican officer
is also substantially true. He said the docu
ment was taken from rought repor of his
| own.
Gen. Scott said he next submitted letter
which was printed in the New Orleans Delta:
this, he said, was the actual letter of Leondas
itself, which he said was first addressed to the
Washington Union, but afterwards addressed
to the editors OF the Delta. He would she :
this letter was interined by Gen. Pillow; some