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The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The late Gen. A. H. Gladden. (search)
ieutenant Colonel. He fought gallantly, as his whole regiment did, at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec, and the gates of Mexico, and upon the fall of Col. Butler and Lieutenant Colonel Dickinson, he was chosen Colonel of his regiment. When Gen. Quitman called for a flag to be raised upon the gates of Balen, Col. Gladden handed the Palmetto flag to Lieut Selleck, of South Carolina, who planted it upon the well — it being the first American flag raised on taking the city of Mexico. Lieut. Selleck, being ordered down by Gen. Quitman, handed the flag to Col. Gladden, who bore it until he fell severely wounded by one of the last shots fired as the city was entered. The reports of the general officers to the War Department hear the highest testimony to the gallantry and great capacity for discipline of this distinguished officer. After the war, he settled in New Orleans, where he remained in mercantile business until the secession of South Carolina. When the State of Sout