corps.  For this purpose the feeble men of each corps will be left to guard its camp and effects, and to load up the latter in the wagons of the corps.  A commander of the present encampment will be designated in the course of this day.

“As soon as it shall be known that the enemy’s works have been carried, or that the general pursuit has been commenced, one wagon for each regiment and battery and one for the cavalry will follow the movement, to receive, under the direction of medical officers, the wounded and disabled, who will be brought back to this place for treatment in general hospital.  The surgeon general will organize this important service, and designate that hospital, as well as the medical officers to be left at it.

“Every man who marches out to attack or pursue the enemy will take
the usual allowance of ammunition and subsistence for at least two
days.

“By command of Major-General Scott.

“H.L.  SCOTT, Acting Adjutant General”.

The engineer train and troops under Lieutenant George Brinton McClellan having arrived, additional batteries were placed in position.  General Santa Anna, believing that the Americans would attack his right, made his dispositions accordingly.  Following are General Scott’s reports of the battle made to the Secretary of War: 

“HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, PLAN DEL RIO,

“FIFTY MILES FROM VERA CRUZ, April 19, 1847.

“SIR:  The plan of the attack, sketched in General Orders No. 111 herewith, was finely executed by this gallant army before two o’clock P.M. yesterday.  We are quite embarrassed with the results of victory—­prisoners of war, heavy ordnance, field batteries, small arms, and accouterments.  About three thousand men laid down their arms, with the usual proportion of field and company officers, besides five generals, several of them of great distinction—­Pinson Jarrero, La Vega, Noryuga, and Obando.  A sixth general, Vasque, was killed in defending the battery (tower) in the rear of the line of defense, the capture of which gave us those glorious results.

“Our loss, though comparatively small in number, has been serious.  Brigadier-General Shields, a commander of activity, zeal, and talent, is, I fear, if not dead, mortally wounded.  He is some five miles from me at this moment.  The field of operations covers many miles, broken by mountains and deep chasms, and I have not a report as yet from any division or brigade.  Twiggs’s division, followed by Shields’s (now Colonel Baker’s) brigade, are now near Jalapa, and Worth’s division is en route thither, all pursuing with good results, as I learn, that part of the Mexican army—­perhaps six or seven thousand men—­that fled before our right had carried the tower, and gained the Jalapa road.  Pillow’s brigade alone is near me at this depot of wounded, sick, and prisoners, and I have time only to give from