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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 24 : the storming of Monterey , 1846
Chapter 24: the storming of Monterey, 1846.
The army arrived at Walnut Springs, two or three miles from Monterey, September 19, 1846. Two days afterward offensive operations were begun.
They ended in the capitulation of Monterey, a city strongly fortified and stubbornly defended.
Mr. John Savage, in his Living representative men, gives a brilliant account of the part taken in these operations by the Mississippi Rifles. In the storming of Monterey, he writes,
Colonel Davis and his riflemen played a most gallant part.
The storming of one of its strongest forts (Taneria), on the 21st of September, was a desperate and hard-fought fight.
The Mexicans had dealt such death by their cross-fires that they ran up a new flag in exultation and in defiance of the assaults which at this time were being made in front and rear.
The Fourth Artillery, in the advance, had been terribly cut up; but the Mississippians and Tennesseeans pressed steadily forward.
Under a galling fire of coppe