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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Pass. Silently, and almost as unaccountably, as the phantoms of a vision, they had gone away. But, in the twenty-five hundred dead and wounded men, whom they had left behind, and who would not vanish with the darkness, we had melancholy evidence, that their having been before us, and struggled with us for two long days, was something more real than the flitting vagaries of a dream. By seven o'clock, our scouts brought the information that Santa Anna's whole army had fallen back on Agua Nueva; but our troops were not only too much exhausted, but too few, to pursue and attack him there. Soon afterwards, General Taylor, accompanied by General Wool and nearly all the staff, and having, as a guard, the companies of the 1st and 2d Dragoons, and Pike's squadron, moved up to the plateau and along over the battlefield; and thence, following the enemy's trail, to La Encantada. No one can imagine, much less describe, how dreadful a scene it was for the whole way. All of our men who had fallen, and whom the enemy had been able toreach, were stripped of every article of clothing, and gashed over with wounds evidently inflicted after death. The Mexicans, on the contrary, lay just as they had died. The plateau was covered with the dead, and the gorges and ravines in front were filled with them. The ground, furrowed by cannon-shot and torn by the bursting shells, was literally reeking with blood. Men and horses, parts of equipments, shattered muskets, drums, trumpets, lances, swords, caps, ?in fine, all the paraphernalia of armies, were scattered, crimson with gore, in every direction. The Mexican wounded had nearly all been taken to the cover of the ravines, or along the road beyond cannon range; and two or three surgeons had been left behind, and were now busily engaged in trying to save th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217886970
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217886973
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr


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