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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 26: after the battle of Monterey. (search)
neral in the Federal Army, whose account of Buena Vista will be given here, and, by taking turns withe narrow pass in front of the hacienda of Buena Vista, and here stood on the defensive. His forcmiles south of Saltillo, at a place called Buena Vista), the fight commenced between some light treding day, now known as the battle-field of Buena Vista. We had approached to within about two milowning joined his company, G, on the 22d at Buena Vista. He had heard at the Rinconada that we werral Wool estimates General Taylor's army at Buena Vista at 4,600. The force of the enemy (includinof the battle. The following account of Buena Vista was written by a young Mississippian scarceua Nueva, twelve miles west of the ranch of Buena Vista and eighteen miles from Saltillo. Here we achment of lancers had charged the ranch of Buena Vista, which, as before stated, was half a mile fgiment when it made the desperate charge at Buena Vista, as already related. He failed to notice t[1 more...]
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 42: summer outing. (search)
be said, that in memory and admiration, at least, and if not in the actual fact, yet in proud and bounding memory, they have been able to tread the glorious tracks of the victorious achievements of Jefferson Davis on the fields of Monterey and Buena Vista (great cheering); and all have heard or have read the accents of eloquence addressed by him to the Senate of the United States (cheers); and there is one, at least, who from his own personal observation can bear witness to the fact of the surastership of victory for the arms of England! And well they might do so. But who originated that movement? who set the example of that gallant operation? who, but Colonel Jefferson Davis, of the First Mississippi regiment, on the fields of Buena Vista? (Tremendous applause.) He was justly entitled to the applause of the restorer of victory to the arms of the Union. Gentlemen, in our country, in this day, such a man, such a master of the art of war, so daring in the field; such a man may n