The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-12

IN Mexico, during the invasion of that country
by trUoPs has been presented to US for pub
ication -
GILMANToE, n. H, June q, 1852.
You are probably aware that at the commence
ment of the war with Mexico, had been more
than fifteen years resident of the Aztecs. Du-
ring the war, was twice expelled from the'city
the suspicious of the government having been
awakened and its displeasure incurred in con-
sequence of the manner in which 1 treated Ma
jor Gaines, Major Borland, and other Encarna-
ciOn prisoners. Immediately after the second
order for my expulsion, desiring to control my
own movements, made my escape, passed the
mountains in two nights, on horse having bribed
a famous guerrilla chief, Colin, who accompan-
led me with five of his desperate associates.
carried dispatches from -- to Gen. Scott
(then at Puebla,) which l delivered at four
o'clock in the morning, and afterwards continu-
ed with that noble commander, he availing him
self of my minute knowledge of the country,
until again entered the city with the Americans:
arrived at Puebla two days before Gen. Pierce's
brigade arrived there-and never was prouder
of my country, and never so proud of my ma
tive State, as when that fine command marched
into the city. All balconies were crowded, and
such reinforcement spread general Joy through
the army. The circumstances of the march, the
energetic, prudent, and skilful manner in which
it had beed performed-the daring courage
manifested by the commander, particularly in
crossing the National Bridge, when his hat was
shot from his head, were of course the subjects
of much conversation, and secured for Gen.
Pierce high admiration and entire confidence
And these, L may safely say, were never abated
during the campaign.
do not propose to give you details of that
campaign, but to.state some facts within my own
knowledge in relation to the operations of the
10th and Goth of August, and the 6th of Sep
tember. On the 10Th of August, was in St.
Augustine, about miles from Contreras.-
Pierces brigade marched out early to open the
road across the mountain, for the artillery which
followed that afternoon. did not see General
Pierce again till near noon the next day. / had
been with Gen. Scott's staff all the morning of
the Goth, and had heard of the dangerous inju-
ry Gen. Pierce had sustained by the fall of his
horse on the Pedregal, the afternoon before
The horse was supposed to have caught his fore
foot in the cleft of rock, being at a hard gal
lop. The preservation of the life of the Gener-
al, seems here, as at the National Bridge, to
have been Providential. Although the bones of
the horse were broken, so that he was left upon
the spot, the tenacity with which the rider held
to the command during that day and the next,
was the wonder of all. He rode, during the
residue of that evening, the horse of the gallant
Lieut. johnson, who had just been shot in his
saddle.
met General Pierce the 10th, near Cova-
con. General Twigg's division had advanced
on the road towards the church at Cherubusco.
and when met Pierce the heavy firing of the
| batteries had opened. shall never forget hi: