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GEN. SHIELDs.-We learn from the New Or
leans Delta that hopes are entertained of the
recovery of Gen. Shields from the dreadful
wound received in the battle of Cerro Gordo.


He was shot in the early part of the battle,
on the 18th, while leading the 4th Illinois regi-
ment in charge upon battery of six guns, sup
ported by a large body of lancers and infantry
the whole being the extre ne right work of
the enemy and the headquarters of Santa Anna
and the depot ofall their public stores. officers
baggage, etc, etc. The ball. which was eth
er grape or canister, entered the right breast,
about an inch and half or two inches below
the nipple, passed through the right lobe of the
lung and out ofthe back without however, do
ing injury to the spine.