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

190 OPERATIONS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND.
and his voice so firm, that I did not think him severely
wounded, and was quite shocked when, after remarking that
" I hoped he had not fared very ill in the battle," he replied
by iaising the blanket and exposing to view the stump of an
amputated leg. After having his foot shot off by a cannon
ball, he had been placed in a wagon and jolted back to camp.
The tortures endured during that rough ride, he said, were
indescribable, and from which death would have been a welcome relief. Unfortunately for such sufferers, there were at
that time no ambulances with the army. The Lieutenant
expired a few days afterward, under, I believe, the terrible
second amputation, which it was found necessary to perform
in many cases in that climate.
The 22d of September, Tuesday, passed without any active
operations on the north and east of the city. The citadel
and other works continued to fire at parties exposed to their
range, and at the Teneria. The guard left in that redoubt
the preceding night, was relieved at midday by General
Quitman's brigade.
On the west side of the city, however, the battle raged
with unabated fury. We have already mentioned the action
of San Jeronimo, by which, on the morning of the 21st,
General Worth had obtained possession of the Saltillo road.
Between him and the city, were yet the strong hill forts we
have heretofore described. The road, following the course
of the river, ran through the valley between these, and was
commanded by the guns of Forts Federacion and Soldada
on the south, and of the Bishop's Castle and Independencia
on the north. It was obviously necessary to dislodge the