Herbert Greyson's division was a portion of the gallant Eleventh
that charged the Mexican batteries on Molina-del-Rey. He covered his
name with glory, and qualified himself to merit the command of the
regiment, which he afterwards received.
Traverse Rocke fought like a young Paladin. When they were marching
into the very mouths of the cannon they were vomiting fire upon
them, and when the young ensign of his company was struck down
before him, Traverse Rocke took the colors from his falling hand,
and crying "Victory!" pressed onward and upward over the dead and
the dying, and springing upon one of the guns which continued to
belch forth fire, he thrice waved the flag over his head and then
planted it upon the battery. Captain Zuten fell in the subsequent
assault upon Chapultepec.
Colonel Le Noir entered the city of Mexico with the victorious army,
but on the subsequent day, being engaged in a street skirmish with
the leperos, or liberated convicts, he fell mortally wounded by a
copper bullet, and he was now dying by inches at his quarters near
the Grand Cathedral.
It was on the evening of the 20th of September, six days from the
triumphant entry of General Scott into the capital, that Major
Greyson was seated at supper at his quarters, with some of his
brother officers, when an orderly entered and handed a note to
Herbert, which proved to be a communication from the surgeon of
their regiment, begging him to repair without delay to the quarters
of Colonel Le Noir, who, being in extremity, desired to see him.
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