Mohave County miner., 1883-01-21

l a1UefWar1 nedfQ that It was SOme trouble about scaling ladders. l did not pause to enquire, but, breaking through their llne with my brave fol lowers, pushed on up the slope. Neal its summit we found scattering oi soldiers, some of them in the gray uniform of the Voltlgeur regiment others Ninth, Fourteenth, and Eff teenth Infantry men. They were the skirmishers who had thus far cleared the way for us, and far ahead of the ''forlorn hope" But beyond lay the real area of danger-a sloping ground, some forty yards in width, between us and the cstle's outward wall-in short, the glacis. It was commanded by three pieces Of can non on the parapet, which swept it with grape and canister as fast as they could be loaded and fred There seemed no chance for us to advance further without meeting certain death; but 1t would be death all the same if we did not-such was my thought and conviction at that moment. Just as l reached thls point there was mCmentary lull, which made 1t possible to be heard, and the words I then spoke, or rather shouted, are remembered by me as though 1t were but yesterday: ''Men! if we don't take Chapultepec the American army is lost. Let us charge up to the wallssw
 4 voice answered: Well charge if anyone leads us!" another adding: ''Yes, We're readyr'
 At that instant the three guns on parapet belched forth their deadly showers almost simultaneously. My heart bounded with joy at hearing them go off thus toget2er. It was our opportunity, and, quickly com pretending It, I leaped over the scarp which had sheltered us, calling out: Come on! I'll lead you!"
 It did not need looking back to know that I was followed. The men I had appealed to were not the sort to stay behind, else they would not have been there, and all came after. When about half way across the open ground 1 saw the parapet crowded with Mexican artillerists, in uniform of dark blue with crimson facings, each musket ill hand, and all aiming, as 1 believed, at my own person. There was a reason for their so con- the1r fires which I need not here enter into. The volley was almost as one sound, and avoided 1t by throwing myself fiat along the earth. just in the nick of time, only getting touched on the fingers of my sword hand, another shot passing through the loose cloth of my over alls. Instantly on my feet again, 1 made on to the wall, there to get tumbled over by the bullet of an es- copet, about an ounce in weight, that " Tt tearing through my thigh. But only a few scattering shots were fired after, as the sealing ladders now c me up; some scores of men went swarming over the parapet, and Cha puitepcc was ours, Ny Lieutenant. Hyrohte Dcrdonville, young treucbman, modest as brave, drag ged the Mexican flag down from its staff He died in New York, with put any record of the deed or word sal l a,out it-save in an obituary penned by my own hand in an ob- 5cure magazine of which l was the editor.
 And now, sir, l must crave your pardon, as that of the American pub l ic, for troubling you with this per 5onal matter and the details of a deed 1 [ had never intended to publicly 1 speak of much less boasting about. l The doing so is to me more repug 1 lant than pleasant, I can assure you; but acts and motives have been | to me which I cannot, t,should 1 lot rest silent under; and this, l 1 nope, will plead my justification.
 Captain Reid fortifes his state nent with several letters from off | ,ers who were engaged in the battle, md who witnessed his heroism.-I ire or our office forbids us the 1 pleasure ofreproducin g them.
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