cky Cavalry, volunteer
Aid-de-Camp; Captain Lee, Engineer, so constantly distinguished,
also bore important orders from me (September 13), until he
fainted from a wound and the loss of two nights' sleep at the
batteries. Lieutenants Beauregard, Stevens and Tower, all
wounded, were employed with the divisions, and Lieutenants G. W.
Smith and G. B. McClellan, with the company of sappers and
miners. Those fine Lieutenants of Engineers, like their Captain,
won the admiration of all about them. The ordnance officers,
Captain Huger, Lieutenants Hagner, Stone, and Reno, were highly
effective, and distinguished at the several batteries; and I must
add that Captain McKinstry, Assistant Quartermaster, at the close
of the operations, executed several important commissions for me
as a special volunteer.

Surgeon-General Lawson, and the medical staff generally, were
skillful and untiring, in and out of fire, in ministering to the
numerous wounded.

To illustrate the operations in this basin, I enclose two
beautiful drawings, prepared under the directions of Major
Turnbull, mostly from actual surveys.

I have the honor to be, Sir, with high respect, your most
obedient servant,
Winfield SCOTT.

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_General Orders No. 286._

Head-quarters of the Army,
National Palace of Mexico, September, 1847.

The general-in-chief calls upon his brethren in arms to return,
both in public and in private worship, thanks and gratitude to
God for the signal triumphs which they have recently achieved for
their country.

Beginning with the 19th of August, and ending the 14th instant,
this army has gallantly fought its way through the fields and
forts of Contreras, San Antonio, Churubusco, Molinos del Rey,
Chapultepec, and the gates of San Cosmo and Tacubaya or Belen,
into the capital of Mexico.

When the very limited numbers who have performed those brilliant
deeds shall have become known, the whole world will be
astonished, and our own countrymen filled with joy and
admiration.

But all is not yet done. The enemy, though scattered and (p. 335)
dismayed, has still many fragments of his late army hovering
about us, and ai