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Battles of the SC Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican War

• Vera Cruz – The Palmetto Regiment lands at Vera Cruz and marches toward Mexico City.
  
  
• Contreras – The Regiment skirmishes with Mexican Lancers.
  
  
• Churubosco – The Regiment assaults and overruns Mexican trenches under heavy fire. Regiment Commander Colonel Pierce M. Butler is killed during the assault.
  
  
• Chapultepec – The Regiment fights their way up the steep side of the hill to the summit to assault the Citadel.
  
  
• Gaita de Belen – The Palmetto Regiment along with Smith's Rifle Regiment storm the gates of Mexico City in the face of devastating cannon and musketry. The first flag to fly over Mexico City was the regimental flag of the Palmetto Regiment. The City falls to Scott's forces.
  

More about SC Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican War

• South Carolina's Palmetto Regiment - SCGenWeb's expanded details of battles
  – Roster of South Carolinians
  
• The Mexican War and The Citadel - newly formed, The Citadel trained the junior officers of Palmetto Regiment
  
• Palmetto Regiment Monument at the South Carolina State House - Columbia
  
• Book excerpt - details formation through the fall of Mexico City - from The History of South Carolina By William Gilmore Simms, Mary Chevillette Simms Oliphant