Sketches of the campaign in northern Mexico : in eighteen hundred forty-six and seven / by an officer of the First Regiment of Ohio volunteers.

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them having embrasures for guns, while the flat roofs, surrounded by high and massive parapets, made each house a
fortress. At least ten thousand troops, regulars and citizen
auxiliaries, with fifty pieces of artillery, held the town, the
entire population of which was animated by a spirit of determined hostility. They were fighting, as they believed, for
all that could nerve men to the most desperate resistance.
For the reduction of the city, thus fortified and defended,
General Taylor had about six thousand men of all arms.
Unfortunately he had no artillery suitable for a siege. With
the aid of a half dozen heavy guns, it is believed that we
could have taken lMtonterey in half the time, and with a tenth
of the lives it eventually cost us.
The following is a list of the corps comprising the Six
Thousand. But few of them had more than half their complement of men, and some had even less.
First Division-GENERAL TWIGGS.
3d Brigade, 2d Dragoons,
i Ridgely's Battery,
Commanded by
L 3d Infantry,
Lt. Col. Garland. 4th Infantry.
4th Brigade, (Braggs battery,
Commanded by j Ist Infantry,
Lt. Col. Wilson. (Baltimore Battalion.
Secozd Divisionz-GENERAL WORTH.
1st Brigade, (Duncan's battery,
Commanded by r Artillery battalion, (serving as infantry)
Major Staniford. I8th Infantry.