Note 49 — MEXICAN WAR DIARY OF GEORGE B. McCLELLAN 1846-1847

“The Cerro Gordo, or Big Hill, called by the Mexicans in their dispatches, El Telegrafo, is an immense hill, of a conical form, rising to the height of near a thousand feet. It stands ... at the head of the pass, to which it gives its name, and formed the extreme left (our right) of the fortifications of the enemy.” Semmes, op. cit., pages 176-177.