on.

Surgeon Craig, medical director, was actively employed in the
important duties of his department, and the medical staff
generally were unremitting in their attentions to the numerous
wounded; their duties with the regular regiments being rendered
uncommonly arduous by the small number serving in the field.

I respectfully enclose herewith, in addition to the report of
division commanders, a field return of the force before Monterey
on the 21st of September; a return of killed, wounded and missing
during the operations, and two topographical sketches, one
exhibiting all the movements around Monterey, the other on a
large scale illustrating more particularly the operations in the
lower quarters of the city, prepared respectively by Lieutenants
Meade and Pope, Topographical Engineers.

I am, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Z. TAYLOR,
_Major-General U. S. A._, _commanding_.

No. 61. (p. 299)
PLATE LXII.

_December 10, 1846._

Somers navis Americana. [Rx]. Pro vitis Americanorum conservatis.

LOSS OF THE UNITED STATES BRIG-OF-WAR SOMERS.

[_for Having Saved the Lives of Americans._]

SOMERS NAVIS AMERICANA. (_The American vessel Somers._) The United
States brig-of-war Somers knocked down at sea. Exergue: ANTE VERA CRUZ
DEC. 10{TH} 1846. (_Off Vera Cruz, December 10th, 1846._) C. C.
WRIGHT. F. (_fecit_).

PRO VITIS AMERICANORUM CONSERVATIS. (_For having saved the lives of
Americans._) Three men-of-war's boats, English, Spanish, and French,
pulling for the Somers. Exergue: A vacant space for the name of the
recipient. ENG. (_engraved_) BY C. C. WRIGHT.

I saw, in 1872, in the office of the chief clerk of the Navy
Department, Washington, two small paintings of both sides of this
medal. They were signed: Butterworth, pinxit.

CHARLES CUSHING WRIGHT was born in Maine in 1796. He was a bank note
engraver and a die sinker, and made several medals, among others those
voted to General Taylor for Buena Vista, to General Scott for Mexico,
to Colonel Bliss by the State of New York, to General Taylor by the
State of Louisiana, to the Volunteers in Mexico by the City of New
York, and the Somers medal. He died in New York, June 7, 1854.

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