The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers; or, the Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico--1846; including Skirmishes with the Mexicans, and an accurate detail of the Storming of Monterey; also the Daring Scouts at Buena Vista together with anecdotes, incidents, descriptions of country, and sketches of the lives of the celebrated partisan chiefs, Hays, McCulloch, and Walker. Page: 171
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MAJ. PHIIP N. BABBOU. 171
shot, grape, and canister, while a heavy fire of musketry from
the houses and covers was kept up without cessation. Capt.
Bragg's battery, doing but little execution, was ordered to move
to a place of greater security. The infantry, however, pressed
forward amid this storm of destruction, and, although officers and
men were falling beside them, they fought on with the most determined
perseverance, when, being repulsed on all sides, they
were ordered by Maj. Mansfield, who was wounded, to retire to
another position, which they did in good order. In this desperate
conflict, the 3d regiment lost nearly all its officers. Its commander,
Maj. W. W. Lear, fell mortally wounded at the head of
his regiment, and the brave and gallant Maj. Barbour, with Capt.
G. P. Field, and Lieut. D. S. Irwin, the adjutant, were killed.
Lieut. J. C. Terrett, of the 1st Infantry, and the accomplished
Capt. Williams of the topographical engineers, were also mortally
wounded.
We cannot pass on without stopping a moment to add our tri.
bute to the memories of the lamented Barbour and Williams, who
were our personal friends.
4 Philip Nourbone Barbour was born in Henderson, in the state
of Kentucky, on the 14th of April, 1813. His grandfather, Gen.
Samuel Hopkins, was a regular officer in the revolutionary war;
and his father, Col. Philip Barbour, commanded a regiment of
volunteers, under Gov. Shelby, at the battle of the Thames. He
graduated at West Point in June, 1834, and, from the autumn
of that year until the day of his death, was engaged in constant
and dangerous service. He was brevetted acaptain for very gallant
services in Florida, on the 15th of April, 1842; and a major
from the 9th of May last, for gallant conduct in the battle of Resaca
de la Palma. In the latter battle, while in the command of
only a few men, he repulsed two successive charges of a considerable
body of Mexican lancers, who were attempting to recover
a piece of artillery which had been captured by a portion of
the 4th Infantry. The daring and heroic gallantry displayed by
him at that critical moment, the signal rout of the Mexicans at
that point, and his hot pursuit of them, in the opinion of his
fellow-officers, largely contributed to the brilliant success of our
arms." He fell in the streets of Monterey while leading his
company on to battle, in the very thickest of the fight, fearlessly
breasting the terrible fire of the masked batteries, which lost to
his regiment its commander and adjutant, and four out of six of
the officers commanding companies! When the army was encamped
near Marin, he kindly lent us his portfolio to write our
then last letter home; having finished it as he came into the, tent,
we gave him our letter to seal for us, and at the same time offered
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Reid, Samuel C., Jr. The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers; or, the Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico--1846; including Skirmishes with the Mexicans, and an accurate detail of the Storming of Monterey; also the Daring Scouts at Buena Vista together with anecdotes, incidents, descriptions of country, and sketches of the lives of the celebrated partisan chiefs, Hays, McCulloch, and Walker., book, 1859; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38096/m1/182/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.