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

URREA ATTACKS MORGAN'S TROOPS. 293
of the escort who had escaped, and that all the drivers
had been massacred and horribly mutilated by the enemy.
Shortly afterward a few teamsters came straggling in, breathless with terror and covered with wounds. They had been
hunted far and hotly through the chaparral, by Urrea's men,
and had escaped by avoiding the road and ranchos, and
making a detour around Marin. In addition to these, it was
afterward ascertained that twenty-five drivers and wagonmasters had succeeded in joining Colonel Morgan's advancing command. Among the fugitives was a negro-boy, who,
with eyes protruding and wool almost " on end at his own
wonders,'" narrated his hair-breadth escape. The Lancers had
gashed him severely, or, to use his own very expressive
words, "' Dem Lanceers plugged into me, jes as if I was a
green water-million."
Before dark on the 25th, Major Shepherd, attended by a
score of officers and men, returned with the information that
he had relieved Irvin, and that the remainder of the detachment were en route and would probably reach M/Ionterey
early that night. Fortunately, Lieutenant Colonel Irvin did
not make such rapid progress as was anticipated, but bivouacked eight miles from town, not far from San Francisco;
for scarcely had he resumed his march on the morning of the
26th. when he was overtaken by Lieutenant Stewart of his
own regiment, who being well mounted had gallantly and
successfully dashed through the enemy's line, with the
information that Colonel Morgan with the remainder of the
2d Ohio regiment, was surrounded by Urrea's troops a short
distance from Agua Frio. Irvin's command immediately
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