General Antonio Lopéz de Santa Anna engaged Taylor’s force at Buena Vista on February 22 1847. From Monclova the Second Illinois marched to Saltillo, Mexico where they joined General Zachary Taylor and the U.S. Bissell crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico, marched through Parras, and reached Monclova on December 6 1846.
The Second Illinois landed with General John Ellis Wool at Port LaVaca, Texas on August 2 1846, marched to San Antonio de Bexar, and commanded the flank of Colonel William Selby Harney’s column on their march to the Rio Grande on the October 14. In June 1846, Bissell was elected captain of Company G, Second Illinois Volunteer Infantry and subsequently colonel and commanding officer of the unit. He served as the prosecuting attorney in the Second Illinois Judicial District until 1846. Bissell gave up his medical practice in 1840, and in 1844 graduated with a law degree from Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky. Bissell graduated from the Philadelphia Medical College in 1835, practiced medicine in New York for two years, and then moved to Monroe County, Illinois. William Henry Bissell was born in Hartwick, New York on April 25 1811.
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