The Somerset Herald And Farmers' And Mechanics' Register

An Incident at Buena Vista.—During the most gloomy hour of the fight Sergeant Joseph Langsworth, 1st Mississippi regiment, was shot through the thigh. Unable to stand, he sat upright, and shot dead a lancer as he approached him, while engaged in reloading, another lancer trotted past him and raised his lance to drive it into a wounded Lieutenant, a few feet from him. Before his weapon was hurled, however, Langford threw his pistol and struck the lancer a stunning blow on the nape of the neck.—The action saved the Lieutenant but proved fatal to the magnanimous Langford; for staggering, the Mexican turned and drove his lance into the forehead of the wounded man, coming out back of his ear. Just at this moment, four men, who were approaching with a horse to carry off their comrade, shot the Mexican at the moment he disengaged his lance, and he tumbled across the body of the prostrate Mississippian.