Arrangements of Forces. Colonel Campbell, the first Ohio, under Colonel A. M. Mitchell, the Baltimore battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Watson. On the 11th September, the following order was issued: "1. As the army may expect to meet resistance in the further advance towards Monterey, it is necessary that its march should be conducted with all proper precaution to meet attack and 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 one party, will march early to-morrow on the route to Marin, for the purpose of repairing the roads, and rendering it practicable for artillery and wagons. The pioneers of each division will be under a subaltern, to be especially detailed for the duty, and the whole be under command of Captain Craig, third infantry, who will report to 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 quartermaster's department for the transportation of the tools, provisions, and knapsacks of the pioneer party. 3. The first division will march on the 13th instant, to be followed on successive days by the second division and field division of volunteers. The head-quarters will march with the first 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 Arrangements of Forces. 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 second division, between its baggage and supply train, and will come under the protection of the guard of that division. The medical supplies will, in like manner, march with the first 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 deposit to the company commanders. 7. The wagons appropriated for 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 place. 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." The first division accordingly took up the line of march on the 13th, the army finding the Mexican general, Torrejon, with a large cavalry force constantly in Arrival of General Henderson with Texas troops. their vicinity. On the 14th General Ampudia issued from Monterey an address to his soldiers-in which he promised them certain victory, and volunteered for them the assurance to the government that they were worthy sons of the immortal Hidalgo, Morelo, Iturbide, and others who knew how to die combating for the independence of their cherished country." On the following day he issued another address, holding out inducements to General Taylor's troops to desert. On the 16th and 17th the army was concentrated at Marin, and rested there from the fatiguing march. The Spanish consul at Monterey sent a messenger to General Taylor to know if the property of foreigners would be respected. General Taylor informed him that he would be responsible for nothing in case the town was taken by an assault. On the 18th the army resumed its march, and reached the town of San Francisco. On this day General Henderson joined General Taylor with Wood's and Hays' regiment of mounted Texans, which numbered eleven hundred men. The old padre of the village of San Francisco informed General Taylor that the most determined opposition would be made at Monterey, General Ampudia having determined only to surrender the city with his life. On the 19th of September the army reached the vicinity of Monterey. The troops marched in order of battle; first General Taylor and staff, with a number of officers; then followed the advanced guard, McCulloch's and Gillespie's rangers. The brigade of General Hen derson came next; then the first division under General Twiggs, and the second under General Worth, and lastly the volunteer division under General Butler. We |