tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688384109165411474.post8062255409837636668..comments2023-10-28T09:21:29.834-04:00Comments on my military history research interests: More on the Mounted Riflemen and Voltigeurs & Foot Riflemen RegimentsRGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14615260562255985768noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688384109165411474.post-43734448081885815362021-08-11T07:29:01.246-04:002021-08-11T07:29:01.246-04:00The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 23 1853
edit...The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 23 1853<br />edited by Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell<br /><br />* Private Gray, of the voltigeurs, was the soldier who saw the train and helped to destroy it. It reached only 10 the ditch, and perhaps the enemy were too busily occupied in seeking safety to think of mines. Bravo's negli. gent officer was engineer Aleman. Mackenzie says “because of nervousness, perhap;,” the Mexicans “scarce ever fired worse” ihan they did afier he reached the ditch. lle lost, however, iwo lieutenants, two sergeants, and two privates killed ; and one lieutenant, two sergeants, two corporals, and nineteen privates wounded.<br /><br />A number of officers were among the first over the parapet. Capt. Biddle, of the voltigeurs, was second; and Bernard, with the colours, was fourth, Col. Johnson reports that he believes Capt. Howard, of the voltigeurs, was the first. Hooker's testimony in Pillow's Court, p. 172, says the first man who entered was a private, he thinks, of the voltigeurs. The first officer likewise, of that regiment, and its colours were planted first.RGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615260562255985768noreply@blogger.com