A print of the capture of General Santa Anna's private carriage at the Battle of Cerro Gordo on April 18, 1847. This print depicts American soldiers pilfering Santa Anna's carriage, after it was brought before General Scott's headquarters to be unloaded, and the soldiers are shown taking and fighting over bags of specie marked $100 as well as Santa Anna's prosthetic leg. Oswandel writes that General Santa Anna and his troops had retreated just before General Twiggs stomed the telegraph hill (Telegrapho) and General Twiggs' division captured General Santa Anna's field carriage which was "filled with papers, plans and maps and his field service, a splendid mounted saddle and several wooden or cork legs, and, the best of all, over $60,000 in specie [...] and to the carriage was harnessed three spledid black mules." [This lithograph is from the book "Notes of the Mexican War 1846-47-48, Revised 1885, Illustrated" by J. Jacob Oswandel, page 131.]
