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When war broke out with Mexico in 1846, the 2nd Infantry Regiment was sent to Camargo, Mexico and joined General David E. Twiggs' Brigade. From September 1846 to December 1847 the regiment campaigned from the Rio Grande to Mexico City, fighting in battles at Veracruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, Moline del Rey and Chapultepec.
1st Regiment of Infantry, Colonel William Davenport [4] 2nd Regiment of Infantry, Lt. Colonel Bennet Riley [4] 3rd Regiment of Infantry, Lt. Colonel Ethan A. Hitchcock [4] 4th Regiment of Infantry, Lt. Colonel John Garland [4] 5th Regiment of Infantry, Lt. Colonel James S. Mcintosh [4] 6th Regiment of Infantry, Colonels: Zachary Taylor; Newman ...
2nd Infantry Regiment – Col Bartolo Arzamendi, 40 men; 8th Infantry Regiment – Col Jose Felix Lopez, 140 men; 11th Infantry Regiment (picket only) – Capt Miguel Camargo, 41 men; 3rd Light Regiment – Capt Juan J. Sanchez, 150 men; Puebla Libres National Guard – Col Pedro M. Herrera, 350 men
U.S. Army regiments which had members defect included the 1st Artillery, the 2nd Artillery, the 3rd Artillery, the 4th Artillery, the 2nd Dragoons, the 2nd Infantry, the 3rd Infantry, the 4th Infantry, the 5th Infantry, the 6th Infantry, the 7th Infantry and the 8th Infantry. [4] The San Patricios are honored in both Mexico and Ireland.
Patterson's 2nd Division was stationed at Camargo until he received orders directly from the Secretary of War to proceed to and occupy the coastal city of Tampico. Taylor and the remaining three divisions along with Henderson's Texans, numbering around 6,000, moved into northern Mexico to fight the battle of Monterrey .
Mexico was represented by the remnants of the Division of the North, totaling 5,650 personnel: 150 artillery, 4,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry: including the Ampudia Brigade (the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 11th line infantry regiments), the Vasquez Brigade (the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th light infantry regiments) and the Juvera Cavalry Brigade (5th, 9th ...
The 2nd New Mexico Infantry Regiment, officially designated the 2nd Regiment New Mexico Volunteer Infantry or 2nd New Mexico Regiment Infantry, was a volunteer regiment in the Union Army, raised at Santa Fe, in the Territory of New Mexico, during July and August 1861. [1] Its commander was Colonel Miguel E. Pino. [2]
A few regular infantry and dragoon regiments (e.g. the Regimiento de Mexico) were recruited within Mexico and permanently stationed there. [5] Mounted units of soldados de cuera (so called from the leather protective clothing that they wore) [6] patrolled frontier and desert regions. [7]