Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-10-17
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,tisaI Mexican war experiences. o. a recent
IA. d his to that paper shows. Partly for H.
N -.ai reealloc,ions. and partly for the humor.
e-r7 10 which they lead, We copy the letter J
pask was Just setting in--darkness
fast settling down, dropping sud.
. IN as il does in the tropics. This
on the evening Of the 18th Of Sep
bsr, 1s47, or nearly twenty years
We had had long days work
the eight hour system was not
s turht Of in that period We had
"a, 10 al it from daylight until dark
IA at It. Quitmans division had
\ brmed the noted Castle of Chapul-
M bee IN front, aided by Twigg's reg
NJ In, while Pillow, with Worth's vet
sns as a reserve, had grappled and
Mined foothold Of the rear and flank
" the Mexican stronghold. One of
first, if not the first, of the Ameri-
dags planted on Chapultepec was
q iced there by Seymour, then in
hmmand Of Ransom's New England
n giment. Poor Ransom Ia Yer
4 &onter,) brave chiyalrous, hand
y bms man was Ransom he was killed
Il few days before at FL Molino del
Nv. But all this has nothing to do
nib the first fat man / ever saw; l
4 ean the first fat man l ever partlcu.
nv noticed. He was an uncommon
iat rlan--an Engiishman---aImost
q TAT men are Englishman; ! mean
Il very fat mon.
\ Chapultepec had fallen. There were
Ho roads running into the city Of
exico, the said city in plain sight
4 q three miles distant. Tho most d.
Il ct road was by the aqueduct aud the
len Garita, and on this, without
h hitting for orders, Quitman and Persi-
Smith advanced; these veteran
y Eicsrs seemed to hurry on as though
ey were anxious to get out Of hear
\ Z Of General ScOtt's orders they
Il Z not forgotten his halt at Churu-
{rsco, and the useless sacrifice Of
/ ore than a thousand men in conse-
hence. At all events / have not for
4 ten it.
u hile Quitman was rushing up the
Esrisa de Belen, in face Of withering
ls, Worth was pushing up the San
Losna Gsrita in plain sight, and here
J. episode the fat man will keep.
Li;tle Preston Johnson, nephew of
General Joe, had been killed at Con
i-sras = few days before, while in
tomnand Of one section of Magruder's
tztery. This section was taken by
.0aswai Jackson who had just come
! 1t with Mcclellan and other young
Lhce-s, from West Point. On the
L5ruing Chapultepee was attached
! Pillows command, and while in the
rosd, outside the wall north of the
l1stie, Mexican shell burst directly
} tie battery, killing or orippling
iome eight or ten men, and as many
l0rses. Inever saw man work as
lard as did young Jackson, tearing
" harness and dragging out dead and
Kicking horses. / do not recollect
bat / ever saw the lamented hero af.
General Hebert was with
ne at the time, and Col. Trousdale,
Eith q broken arm, jawing with DR..
as TO the necessity Of cut
ing 1t off, was sitting under the wall
,fChApultepee. Hebert willrecolleet
II this; be will particularly remem-
per a brogan which hummed by US,
the foot OF one Of Stone
sail Jackson's men and which, cut
lf by the shell, had been hurled
against the wall on our right, aud then
bounced down into the road under
our horses feet, the flesh still quiver-
nE. But in relation to fat man the
irst; I am gaining on him.
Quitman and Smith, advancing up
The Belen Garita, were under fire
the men, as they lodged
ID snd out of the arches of the aque-
i1ct, were continually crippled or cut
down. Moragne and J. W. Canty, OF
the gallant South Carolina regiment,
we're killed; GLADDEN., Of the same
corps, was wounded, while Loring, OF
the rifles, lost an arm while pushing
1ravely on. Worth was not particu-
Arly disturbed going up the San Cos
na Garita; be sent Duncan out with
is light battery to help Quitman and
smith on the Belen route. But after
,sssing the English Cemetery, and on
the struggling suburbs OF
San Cosma, Worths regulars caught
{ In earnest. The Mexicans had a
.tr0ng battery at the Garita, which
.ommanded and completely swept the
.treet along the aqueduct, and the old
Texan plan of boring and burrowing
nr0ugh the houses learned by the
OF the First division at
Monterrey the year previous, was
.coptsd. And it succeeded. AT dusk,
he close vicinity of the Garita Of san
7osma having been reached, n dash
zrried the works without great loss,
I'd Worth was inside The proud cap
tG' Of the Montezumas Quitman, at-
.e, losing Drum, Benjamin, and other
brave men, had also effected lodge
nent inside the Garita de Belen, and
With Beauregard and other officers
Tas busy planning further operations
iensive. They did not intend to
tive Santa Anna another chance to
"a .er into the armistice business the
ioii faces of Drum, Benjamin and 9th
, gallant spirits killed without cause,
hd there stark and stiff reminders
lllt Santa Anna could not wit and
PIT talk the tall hero of Chippewa.
tlt where IS fat man the firsti Enter
b. man.
Worth was no sooner inside Of the
5arts'of San Cosma than, with his