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

166 BUTLEBRS DIVISION COME INTO ACTION.
General Taylor finding it necessary to support the attack,
made at such sacrifice by the Regulars, now ordered General
Butler, with three regiments of his division, to march at
once by the left flank toward the scene of battle. The Tennessee and Mississippi regiments, constituting General Quitman's brigade, and the Ohio regiment of General HIamer's
brigade were selected, leaving the 1st Kentucky regiment,
which had been posted oI the extreme right of the line, to
cover the mortar battery. Our men, hitherto the excited
spectators of the conflict, and standing " like grayhounds in
the slips, straining upon the start," received the order with
loud hurrahs.
The three regiments above named, moving left in front,
advanced together in the same direction. Before proceeding
far, the Ohio regiment was ordered "to the right," and
instructed to enter the town at a more central point, nearer
the citadel. Generals Butler and I-amer rode with us to the
attack, while General Quitman with his brigade, continued
to advance upon Fort Teneria. Profiting by Colonel Garland's experience, that general avoided any movement calculated to expose his command to the cross-fire on the right,
and marched steadily upon the front of the redoubt. Arriving within musket range of the work, he extended his column
and advanced firing. A terrific and incessant discharge of
all arms was encountered from the Alexican defenders, but it
neither checked not changed the direction of that blazing
line. MIanfullly breasting the storm, the brigade moved
firmly on till within a few yards of the fort, when the order
to charge was given. Then the troops rushing forward