s and corps named gained merited
praise. Colonel Trousdale, the commander, though twice wounded,
continued on duty until the heights were carried.

Early in the morning of the 13th, I repeated the orders of the
night before to Major-General Worth, to be, with his division, at
hand to support the movement of Major-General Pillow from our
left. The latter seems soon to have called for that entire
division, standing momentarily in reserve, and Worth sent him
Colonel Clarke's brigade. The call, if not unnecessary, was at
least, from the circumstances, unknown to me at the time; for,
soon observing that the very large body of the enemy, in the road
in front of Major-General Quitman's right, was receiving
re-enforcements from the city, less than a mile and a half to the
east, I sent instructions to Worth, on our opposite flank, to
turn Chapultepec with his division, and to proceed cautiously by
the road at its northern base, in order, if not met by very
superior numbers, to threaten or to attack, in rear, that body of
the enemy. The movement, it was also believed, could not fail to
distract and to intimidate the enemy generally.

Worth promptly advanced with his remaining brigade, Colonel (p. 330)
Garland's, Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Smith's light battalion,
Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan's field battery, all of his division,
and three squadrons of dragoons, under Major Sumner, which I
had just ordered up to join in the movement.

Having turned the forest on the west, and arriving opposite to
the north centre of Chapultepec, Worth came up with the troops in
the road, under Colonel Trousdale, and aided, by a flank movement
of a part of Garland's brigade, in taking the one gun breastwork,
then under the fire of Lieutenant Jackson's section of Captain
Magruder's field battery. Continuing to advance, this division
passed Chapultepec, attacking the right of the enemy's line,
resting on that road, about the moment of the general retreat
consequent upon the capture of the formidable castle and its
outworks.

Arriving some minutes later, and mounting to the top of the
castle, the whole field to the east lay plainly under my view.

There are two routes from Chapultepec to the capital, the one on
the right entering the same gate, Belen, with the road fr