CHAPTER XI

MOLINO DEL REY.--CHAPULTEPEC.--CAPTURE OF CITY OF MEXICO.--RETURN TO UNITED STATES

General Scott and staff enter Tacubaya--Take quarters in Bishop's Palace--Commissioners to negotiate peace--Mexican treachery--Armistice terminated--Battle of Molino del Rey--Useless attacks--Severe losses--Battle of Chapultepec--Castle stormed--Quitman advances on Tacubaya causeway--Worth on San Cosme causeway--Lieutenant Stevens, with Worth, wounded--Enemy retreat in night--American troops occupy city--Lieutenant Stevens's remarks on the movements--His character sketches of Lee, Beauregard, Tower, Smith, McClellan, Foster, Mason--Removed to city--quartered in the Palace--Severe wound--Ups and downs--Mounts crutches--Journeys in ambulance with Lieutenant Foster to Puebla--Arrives at New Orleans 202