Okay, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates.

This will be chapter or episode five of my reading from my confession,

Recollections of a Rogue by Samuel Chamberlain,

and this will be chapter 16 from the book.

Title is The Battle of Buena Vista.

The next morning was glorious.

It was February 22nd, Washington's birthday.

The camp was alive with preparations for battle.

Staff officers and mounted orderlies were galloping to and fro.

Columns of infantry and batteries of artillery were moving out towards the pass.

Drums were beating. The banners were unf moving out towards the pass. Drums were beating.

The banners were unfurled to the breeze.

The volunteers were cheering.

The wagons were moving on the road for Saltil.

Our squadron moved on to the Angostura Pass, since known as Buena Vista.

Under the cliffs at the pass, the surgeon and his assistants were busy preparing amputating tables.

We rode up on the plateau where we had a good view of the whole ground.

On our left, some two miles distant from the pass, rose the high, craggy walls of the Sierra Madre.

To our front towards the Enkantata was a continued series of ravines, deep barancas, and rocky cliffs.

Some five miles away to our front, clouds of dust, rolled up, telling us the enemy we're moving

in our position. Our troops came onto the ground with drums beating and columns flying.

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