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General Shields--This distinguished officer is always to be found in the thickest of the fight, bearing our eagles to victory. Scarcely had he recovered from his wound at Cerro Gordo ere we find him near the City of Mexico chasing the flying Mexicans in their precipitate flight from his pursuing brigade. And although seriously wounded in this great battle, he staunched the blood flowing from his wound by binding his handkerchief around it, nor quits the field until the victory is won.

(General Shields is a native of the Emerald Isle, and well may his Irish friends in America be proud of so brave and chivalrous a brother. General Shields is now about forty years of age. When he received the appointment of a General in the United States Army he was at the head of the Land Department, but left his most comfortable situation to defend his adopted country in the perilous strife of a sanguinary war in Mexico. Before he was called to preside over the Land Department at Washington he had held the appointment of supreme Judge in the State of Illinois. Thus beside being a gallant soldier as ever drew a sword, he ranks among the best read Judges of the Republic.)