 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - African Americans - 1864 - 546 pages
...Sumter. He graduated at West Point in 1842, the fourth in his class. The next year he was breveted 1st lieutenant, "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco." At the storming of El Molino del Bey, he fell, severely wounded. For his gallantry here... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - 1864 - 574 pages
...the company, and brevet rank of first lieutenant, bearing" date August 20th, was awarded to him, " for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco." CHAPTER IV. HONOBS WON. Armistice — Perfidy of the Mexicans — The heights of Chapultepec described... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 852 pages
..."for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cerro Gordo," April 18, 1847; lieutenant-colonel "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco," Aug. 20, 1847; and colonel "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cluipultepec," Sept.... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 500 pages
...distinguished himself in all the battles of that campaign. On the twentieth of August, 1847, he was made First Lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. At Molino del Rey, in 1848, he was leading a division of a storming party in the terrible assault on... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 632 pages
...as engineers were as valuable, as those they rendered in battle at the head of their gallant men." For "gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco," McClellan was breveted first-lieutenant; and for "gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 490 pages
...Hooker. In the report of General Twiggs the young lieutenant was mentioned for u gallant services ; " and for " gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco," he was bre vetted captain. On the 8th of September came the victory of El Molino del Eey ; and on the... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - United States - 1867 - 632 pages
...promotion is a sufficient testimony to his bravery and merit. " Brevet First Lieutenant, August 20, 1847, ' for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco ;' severely wounded in the battle of Molino del Rey, September 8, 1847 ; Brevet Captain from that date,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 894 pages
...States Army, and remained in it until after the close of the Mexican War. He was brevetted captain for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. He afterwards obtained another brevet, that of major, at the storming of Chapnltepec ; and here it... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - United States - 1867 - 597 pages
...1889, He achieved an enviable fame in the Mexican war, winning a brevet Captaincy, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. He was brevetted Major, September 13, of the same year, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - History - 1867 - 626 pages
...1839. He achieved an enviable fame in the Mexican war, winning a brevet Captaincy, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. He was brevetted Major, September 13, of the same year, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the... | |
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Aug. 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. 
