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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The battle of Buena Vista. (search)
duct of the celebrated Mississippi Rifles, under charge of Colonel, now President Jefferson Davis, on the field of Buena Vista. The great movement then made by Davis is said to have been without previous parallel in the art of war, and was regarded by the Duke of Wellington as new and masterly. It was subsequently made, we learn on the authority of Gen. Cushing, on the fields of the Crimes. "The battle had been raging some time with fluctuating fortunes, and was setting against us, when Gen. Taylor, with Col. Davis and others, arrived on the field Several regiments (which were subsequently rallied, and fought bravely,) were in full retreat; O'Brien, after having his men and horses completely cut up, had been compelled to draw off the guns, and Bragg, with almost superhuman energy, was sustaining the brunt of the fight. Many officers of distinction had fallen. Col. Davis rode forward to examine the position of the enemy, and concluding that the best way to arrest our fugitives woul