. The life and military services of Lieut-General Winfield Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and the pending war for the Union. , \. COLONEL millers FAMOUS RElLY. 129 line was unshaken and the enemy repulsed. Two otherattempts, having the same object, had the same Scott was again engaged in repelling the formerof these ; and the last I saw of him on the field of battle,he was near the head of his column, and giving to itsmarch a direction that would have placed him on theenemys right. ******* Having been for some timewounded, and
. The life and military services of Lieut-General Winfield Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and the pending war for the Union. , \. COLONEL millers FAMOUS RElLY. 129 line was unshaken and the enemy repulsed. Two otherattempts, having the same object, had the same Scott was again engaged in repelling the formerof these ; and the last I saw of him on the field of battle,he was near the head of his column, and giving to itsmarch a direction that would have placed him on theenemys right. ******* Having been for some timewounded, and being a good deal exhausted by loss ofblood, it became my wish to devolve the command onGeneral Scott, and retire from the field, but, on inquiry,I had the misfortune to learn that he was disabled bywounds ;* I therefore kept my post, and had the satisfac-tion to see the enemys last effort repulsed. The crisis of this engagement was the moment whenthe enemys battery, which from its position commandedthe field of action, was stormed by Millers diagram exhibits the position of the troops at thatmoment. This charge was one of the iinest achieve-ments of the American
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