commanded by Cos in person, marched down the river side, and forming his line in front of the morass, commenced the attack. The fog was so thick, they had nearly obtained their position before they were distinctly seen. When the charge was made, our column, facing the enemy, ascended the bank and gave them a volley, that broke their line and threw them into disorder. But they rallied and were repulsed three times successively, when they retreated in great con- fusion, leaving ten of their dead on the field and sev- eral wounded, and also their cannon for those who know better how to use it.-Our loss was one mor- tally wounded. The enemy's loss was said, by friendly Mexicans in town, with whom we had frequent com- munication, to be seventy-five, in killed and wounded. After this Gen. Cos did not venture to attack us in the field. In giving a history of the battle of San Antonio, the obstacles which always obtrude themselves upon the narrators of military operations in the field, present peculiar difficulties in the present instance in conse- quence of the great irregularity of the town and coun- try adjacent, where the bloody scenes I am about to descrihe were acted. ·
The village of San Antonio stands on the west bank of the river, of the same name, at a place where the
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