Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, left: D.P. WHITING CAPT. 7TH INF. DEL. / 1. Independance (or Castle) Hill. / 2. Lt. Col. Duncan's Battery of Light Artillery throwing shells / at the routed Mexican Cavalry. / 3. City of Monterey. / 4. "Sierra Silla", Saddle Mountain.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, center: HEIGHTS OF MONTEREY, / from the Saltillo road looking towards the City. (from the West.) / (Worth's Division" moving into position under the guns of the enemy, after the action of "St. Jeronimo", on the morning of 21st Sept. 1846) / Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1847 by D.P. Whiting in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern district of New York. / LITH. & PRINTED IN COLORS BY G. & W. ENDICOTT, NEW YORK.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, right: ON STONE BY F. SWINTON. / 5. Rancho, (or village) or St. Jeronimo. / 6. Federation Hill: First position carried by assault on the / afternoon of 21st Sept. / N.B. The second Division was composed of one Regt. of Texan Cavalry, / two Co's. of Tex.n Rangers, two Batteries of Lt. Artillery, the "Art.ly / Battalion", the 5th 7th and 8th Reg.'ts of Infantry, and one Company / of Louisiana Volunteers. / [No. 2]