movement until the entire brigade (4th) shall be in readiness to move. 2. To increase the facilities for proper attendance and accommodation of the sick belonging to the regiments below, Surgeon Wood, at Point Isabel, and Surgeon Wright, at Matamoras, will hire such additional private physicians as may be required by the wants of the service in their respective hospitals. The accommodations for the sick will be increased at either place by the quartermaster's department to the extent deemed necessary by the surgeon in charge, without instructions from head-quarters. 3. Colonel Clarke, commanding at Matamoras, and Major Gardner, commanding at Point Isabel, are authorized to grant discharges to such volunteers in the general hospital at these places as may receive surgeon's certificate of disability. This provision is rendered indispensable by the number of volunteers so situated, and the distance of the hospitals from the proper authority to grant discharges. Volunteers thus discharged will be paid in all cases where their papers admit. By order of Major General Taylor: W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. Orders No. 112. HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, The Mississippi regiment of volunteers will constitute a portion. of the 2d field brigade under Brigadier General Quitman, and will be organized under his direction for field service. By order of Major General Taylor: W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. Orders No. 113. HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, 1. Colonel George Croghan, inspector general, is announced as the chief of the inspector general's department with the army of occupation, and is charged accordingly with all the duties confided to that office by the general regulation, and the usage of the service. All officers assigned to duty in that department will report to Colonel Croghan, and receive his orders and instructions. 2. On his arrival, Major General Patterson will assume the command of all the troops at this place, and also those left in rear at Matamoras and other points. 3. The 2d Kentucky and 2d Ohio regiments, with the volunteers. from those States left behind by the marching regiments, will form a temporary brigade, under command of Brigadier General Marshall; the 2d Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama regiments, with the volunteers left behind by Lieutenant Colonel Watson's battalion, and the Mississippi regiment will form another brigade, under command of Brigadier General Pillow. These troops will be encamped under direction of Major General Patterson, who will establish all needful guards for the protection of the public depots, and institute the necessary measures for the police and instruction of his command. 4. Major General Patterson is specially charged with the necessary provision for the care of the sick in the various camps and hospitals. He is fully empowered to procure any additional medical aid that may be required, and generally to adopt all measures that may be necessary to restore and secure the health of the troops. In the absence of the commanding general, he is also authorised to grant permission to leave the country, to all officers of volunteers who may resign in consequence of sickness; their resignations being forwarded to head-quarters. 5. A strong company of volunteers, to be selected by Major General Patterson, for its discipline and instruction, will proceed to Reinosa, and report to Captain Swartwout, as a part of the garrison of that place. 6. The necessary orders and instructions for stated musters of the troops of his command will be given by Major General Pat terson. 7. Colonel Riley's command, on its arrival, will be detained at this place until further orders. Major General Patterson will furnish, from the regular troops of his command, escorts for all convoys of money sent forward to the army. By order of Major General Taylor: W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. Orders No. 115. } HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, 1. As the army may expect to meet resistance in its further advance towards Monterey, it is necessary that the march should be conducted with all proper precautions to meet attack, and to secure the baggage and supplies. From this point the following will be the order of march until otherwise directed: 2. All the pioneers of the army, consolidated into gne party, will march early to-morrow, on the route to Marin, for the purpose of repairing the road and rendering it practicable for artillery and wagons. The pioneers of each division will be under a subaltern. to be specially detailed for the duty, and the whole will be under the command of Captain Craig, 3d infantry, who will report at head-quarters for instructions. This pioneer party will be covered by a squadron of dragoons and Captain McCulloch's company of rangers. Two officers of topographical engineers, to be detailed by Captain Williams, will accompany the party for the purpose of examining the route. Two wagons will be provided by the quar termaster's department for the transportation of the tools, provisions and knapsacks of the pioneers. 3. The 1st division will march on the 13th, to be followed on successive days by the 2d division and field division of volunteers. The head-quarters will march with the 1st division. Captain Gillespie, with half of his company, will report to Major General Butler; the other half, under the first lieutenant, to Brigadier General Worth. These detachments will be employed for outposts and videttes, and as expresses between the columns and head-quarters. 4. The subsistence supplies will be divided between the three columns, the senior commissary of each division receipting for the stores, and being charged with their care and management. The senior commissaries of divisions will report to Captain Waggaman for this duty. 5. Each division will be followed immediately by its baggage train and supply train, with a strong rear guard. The ordnance train, under Captain Ramsay, will march with the 2d division, between its baggage and supply trains, and will come under the protection of the guards of that division. The medical supplies will, in like manner, march with the 1st division. 6. The troops will take eight days' rations, and forty rounds of ammunition. All surplus arms and accoutrements, resulting from casualties on the road, will be deposited with Lieutenant Stewart, left in charge of the depot at this place, who will give certificates of deposite to the company commanders. 7. The wagons appropriated for the transportation of water will not be required, and will be turned over to the quartermaster's department, for general purposes. 8. Two companies of the Mississippi regiment will be designated for the garrison of this depot. All sick and disabled men, unfit for the march, will be left behind, under charge of a medical officer, to be selected for this duty by the medical director. By order of Major General Taylor: W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. Orders No. 118. } HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, Camp near Marin, September 16, 1846. The commanding general embraces the opportunity afforded by the concentration of the corps of the regular army, to communicate to them (in orders) the accompanying extracts of resolutions adopted by the general assemblies of the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island, at their last sessions, and received by him, through the governors of those States, since the army broke up its camp at Matamoras. By order of Major General Taylor: W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. Orders No. 119. S HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, 1. The corps of the army will march to-morrow in the direction of Monterey. The following will be the order of march: The advance, consisting of McCulloch's and Gillespie's companies of rangers, and a squadron of dragoons, will march at 5 o'clock. The pioneer party will be broken up, and the pioneers will return to their regiments. The 1st division will march at 6 o'clock, followed immediately by its baggage, and one-half of the ordnance train. The head-quarters will march with the 1st division. The 2d division will march one hour after the 1st, followed in. like manner by its baggage and the remainder of the ordnance train. The 3d division will march one hour after the 2d, followed by its baggage and the general supply train. The rear guard, to be composed of two companies of regulars, one from each division, will follow the supply train and close the march. 2. In case the Texas mounted volunteers, under Major General Henderson, should arrive in time, they will be thrown in advance, except four companies, which will form the rear guard instead of the infantry above indicated. The dragoons in that case will march with the 1st division. Four men from Captain Gillespie's company will be attached to each of the rear divisions, (2d and volunteers,) to be employed as expresses, &c. 3. The habitual order of battle will be às follows: The 1st division on the right, the 2d division on the left, and the volunteer division in the centre. The chiefs of divisions will organize such reserves as they may deem necessary. The above order is not invariable, but may be controlled by the nature of the ground. By order of Major General Taylor: W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. Orders No. 120. S HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, The Texan mounted troops, under Major General Henderson, will form the advance of the army to-morrow, except two companies to compose the rear guard, no infantry being required for that duty. The commanding officer of the new rear guard will report to the commanding general for orders. The advance will march at sunrise, to be followed at intervals of one hour by the different divisions, in the order already announced. By order of Major General Taylor: W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. Orders No. 121. S HEAD QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, Camp before Monterey, September 20, 1846. 1. The practice of firing small arms in and about the camp is strictly prohibited. When it may become necessary to unload small arms of any description, the loads will be withdrawn, but in no case discharged. The commanders of divisions are specially charged with the execution of this order, and it is made the duty of officers of every grade to use the most efficient measures for its enforcement. Officers who may offend against its provisions will be at once reported to the commanding general. All other persons, whether soldiers or followers of the camp, will be at once placed in confinement under charges. 2. The commanding general finds it necessary, also, to condemn the practice which prevails of small unarmed parties, and even individuals, straying from the limits of the camp. No persons, except officers or armed parties conducted by officers, will be suffered to pass the exterior guards; and the several commanders will give the necessary orders to secure an observance of this regulation. An infantry picket will be thrown out from the 1st division upon the Monterey road, at a distance of half a mile, whose duty it shall be to apprehend all persons who may be found in that direction" violating this order. By order of Major General Taylor: Orders No. 123. S W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, Camp near Monterey, September 27, 1846. The commanding general has the satisfaction to congratulate the army under his command upon another signal triumph over the Mexican forces. Superior to us in numbers, strongly fortified, and with an immense preponderance of artillery, they have yet been driven from point to point, until forced to sue for terms of capitulation. Such terms have been granted as were considered due to the gallant defence of the town, and to the liberal policy of our own govern ment. The general begs to return his thanks to his commanders and to all his officers and men, both of the regular and volunteer forces, for the skill, the courage, and the perseverance with which they have overcome manifold difficulties, and finally achieved a victory shedding lustre upon the American arms. A great result has been obtained, but not without the loss of many gallant and accomplished officers and brave men. The army and the country will deeply sympathise with the families and friends of those who have thus sealed their devotion with their lives. By order of Major General Taylor: W. W. S. BLISS, Assistant Adjutant General. |