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 Rather, he acted as though he might side-step Chapultepec. The First Division and the Cadwalader brigade rested at Tacubaya. The other Third Division brigade—that of General Pierce, who was still in the hospital with his crippled knee—under General Pillow himself had been moved about two miles east, where with the Riley brigade of the Twiggs Second Division it was covering the city's southern gates.

The engineers of Captain Lee were down there, also reconnoitring.

"Dar's gwine to be anodder big battle," Pompey kept insisting. "Gin'ral Scott, he got somepin' up his sleeve."

Before daylight of September 12, Jerry, in the camp of the First Brigade, was half-awakened by the tread of marching feet in the dusky outskirts of Tacubaya. At reveille they all might see that there were two camps between Tacubaya and the city. The Pillow camp had been transferred nearer and was established down toward the King's Mill in front of the town; while a second bivouac appeared not far on the east or right of it under Chapultepec.

The General Quitman Fourth Division had arrived at last from San Augustine: Brigadier-General Shields' New Yorkers and South Carolinans, and Lieutenant-Colonel Watson's Marines and Second Pennsylvanians! Now the only troops left in the rear were General Persifor Smith's brigade of the Second Division, being the First Artillery, the Third Infantry, and the dismounted Rifles. But Taylor's light battery of the First had come up, it was said, and so had General Twiggs.

There was another suspicious sight. During the