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Michigan Address of Col. Isaac D. Toll
Of the infantry companies recruited in this state, two, A and E, forming the right and center of the Fifteenth Regiment, also Company G, distinguished at the National Bridge, I must give more than mere mention. The two former, like indeed the whole army, were reduced to one-third of their original number by the remarkable changes of temperature, and the privations to which they were exposed.
At Contreras, on the 19th of August, 1847, over the pedegral, confronting Valencia with his vastly preponderating numbers, under a heavy artillery fire; at night, on picket guard in a cold rain of a temperature over 7,000 feet above the sea; on the morning of the 20th, ere dawn, in line, to the assault, thence in pursuit, with but a few moments rest at San Angelos, haversacks emptied the day before, twelve miles to the sanguinary field of Churubusco, Scott himself looking the very genius of war, massive, grey, like William of Deloraine—
" Never did mightier man or horse, Stem a tempestuous torrent's force,"
giving words of cheer, as the exhausted men filed rapidly by him at
Coyoacan, whence he directed the battles:
Mexican War
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