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

164 GARLAND S ATTACK.
had advanced, was swept with grape and musket balls. So
great and sudden had been the loss, especially of officers,
that the column was, for the moment, checked and stunned.
Had Garland or -Mansfield luckily been informed of the
enemy's positions, they could then undcloubtedly have rushed
upon the front of the Teneria with the bayonet. But with
the hope of taking the redoubt in reverse, the direction of
the column was unfortunately changed to the right, and led
immediately into the focus of fire from several batteries.
The torn and bleeding ranks, unable to make head against
that terrible storm, and unwilling to retreat, halted there,
and set the smoke in which they were wrapt ablaze with their
volleys. Tile Mexicans, greatly outnumbering Garland's
brigade, being aided by artillery, and concealed behind
intrenchments, had every advantage in the combat. The
rank and file of the 1st and 3d regimcnts, and also of the
4th, which had soon advanced to their assistance, was badly
cut up. Among their officers slain were, Morris, Field, Barbour, HIoskins, Terret, Irvin, Hazlett, and Woods; for whose
precious blood a hecatomb of Mexicans would be but a paltry propitiation. Among those wounded in this assault,
some of them mortally, were, the gallant Williams, of the
Engineers, Lear, Abercrombie, Bainbridge, Lemott, Grahamla
and Dilworth. Failing in their attack upon the Teneria,
the regular troops, dividing into small parties, and sheltering
themselves as much as possible behind some scattered cottages in the vicinity, kept upon an annoying fire upon the
advanced works of the enemy.
Meanwhile the division of volunteers had remained quietly