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-                                ESSAY
-                                ON THE
-                              LITERATURE
-                                OF THE
-                              MEXICAN WAR
-
-                             W. T. LAWSON,
-
-               Class of ’82, Columbia College, New York.
-
-
-
-
-                                ESSAY.
-
-
-The annexation of Texas and the consequent war with Mexico resulted
-in adding to the United States eight hundred and eighty-six thousand
-four hundred and ninety square miles of territory, an area much greater
-than all that is comprised in the States lying east of the Mississippi
-River, and almost equal to that embraced in the Louisiana purchase of
-President Jefferson from Napoleon the First in 1803. The events of the
-war which added and confirmed to the Union this magnificent domain have
-been obscured by the magnitude of the recent civil war, and they have
-become almost as remote in the popular imagination as the romantic
-incidents in the campaigns of Cortez in the sixteenth century. But as
-the fires of civil strife are almost dead, and peaceful industries
-are developing the wonderful resources of our Mexican acquisitions,
-new interest is awakened in the circumstances of the conquest and the
-brilliant military achievements that attended them. By the enterprise
-of our own people millions of gold and silver have been added to the
-world’s wealth from the mines and placers of California, Arizona, New
-Mexico and Colorado, and the plains of Texas are teeming with countless
-herds for the feeding of Europe. A new but peaceful invasion of Mexico
-by American capital has been begun, which arouses fresh interest in its
-history, its native wealth, and its destiny. A railway under American
-management traverses the line of Scott’s march from Vera Cruz to the
-capital city, another will soon pass over the fields made immortal by
-Taylor and his handful of rough and ready soldiers; engineering skill
-proposes to cross the Isthmus of Tehuantepec with an iron highway for
-the transportation of ocean vessels from the Bay of Campeche to the
-waters of the Pacific Ocean, and a line of railway following the track
-of Doniphan’s march will soon reach Chihuahua in its progress to the
-City of Mexico, being built with a rapidity almost equal to the speed
-of his little army of victorious Missourians who first marked out this
-pathway of improvement.
-
-The time has not yet come when the war with Mexico can be treated with
-the philosophic dignity of which it is worthy, embellished with the
-imagination of poetry, and its events appropriated by the historical
-novelist. Certain it is, whether strange or not, that no hand has
-been put forth to extract the philosophy of its history, to direct
-our opinions of its events and its men, to trace the connections of
-its causes and effects, and to draw from its occurrences and results
-general lessons of political wisdom. Almost all the histories and
-sketches of it were written soon after its close, and may be considered
-almost contemporaneous with it, when the authors of the period could
-not avail themselves of the mass of material which time has now made
-accessible. The party passions of the hour, intensified by the slavery
-struggle, so tinged all efforts at the philosophical discussion of
-it that its great, enduring, and far-reaching consequences were not
-foreseen, much less appreciated, and are only just now beginning to
-be felt under the influence of the material development of the vast
-regions that were added to the country at its termination. Numerous
-books have been written about it, many of which will have some value
-to him who shall in the future assume the task of illustrating this
-brilliant period of American history, and there is appended to this
-essay a list of those volumes which have been examined and seem
-worthy of study. So little, however, is the history of this portion
-of the nation’s life appreciated that President Porter, of Yale
-College, in the list of historical studies in his work upon “Books
-and Reading” omits all reference to works upon the Mexican War, and
-gives but bare mention to that valuable authority upon the subject,
-“Benton’s Thirty Years View,” a work of which William Cullen Bryant
-has said: “Its literary execution, the simplicity of its style, and
-the unexceptionable taste which tempers all its author’s allusions to
-his contemporaries have been the subject of universal admiration.” For
-a clear and dispassionate discussion of the causes of the war, for
-just judgment of the motives of the actors in it, and the impartial
-statements of the facts that are given, Col. Benton’s chapters on
-the Mexican War cannot be commended too highly to the student or the
-historian. It is worthy of mention that the chapter which contains his
-address of welcome to Doniphan and the Missouri Volunteers at St. Louis
-on their return from the war is a masterpiece of dignified and graphic
-eloquence, worthy of a place as a classic model, and calls to mind the
-days when Athens witnessed the most splendid exhibitions of oratory the
-world has ever known. Since most of the histories of this war have been
-written a valuable addition has been made to the stores of knowledge
-on the subject in an admirable translation by Col. Albert E. Ramsey of
-a Mexican history of the conflict, which has been published under the
-title, “The Other Side.”
-
-For the limited purposes of this essay it will be sufficient to select
-for rapid review those volumes which are esteemed the best types of all
-that has been written, and present them for consideration.
-
-
-    THE WAR WITH MEXICO. By R. S. Ripley, Brevet-Major in the
-      United States Army, &c. New York. 1849. 2 vols., 8vo.
-
-This seems by all odds the best history of the Mexican War. As a
-military history it is almost faultless, and will probably remain
-an authority upon the military events of the war for all time. The
-author, who was born in Ohio, graduated from the Military Academy in
-1843. His regiment, the Second Artillery, was sent to the Rio Grande,
-took part in the battles around Monterey in September, 1846, and was
-then ordered to report to Gen. Scott. In the reorganization of the
-forces he became First Lieutenant of the Second Artillery, March 3,
-1847. He took part in the operations which ended in the capitulation
-of Vera Cruz and the occupation of that port by the American Army,
-(March 9 to 29, 1847,) and for gallant and meritorious conduct in the
-battle of Cerro Gordo (April 17 and 18, 1847,) was breveted Captain.
-When Gen. Scott began his final movement upon the City of Mexico (Aug.
-6, 1847) Ripley was assigned to duty as aide to Gen. Pillow, and was
-with that General in the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, and Molino
-del Rey, and also in the storming of Chapultepec, and for his gallant
-and meritorious conduct was breveted Major (Sept. 13, 1847). He was,
-therefore, an actor in most of the scenes which he describes, and held
-towards the superior officers of the Army relations which enabled him
-to comprehend what was done.
-
-As an aide-de-camp and friend of Gen. Pillow, he naturally sympathized
-with that officer in the unseemly dissensions which broke out between
-Gen. Scott on the one hand and Gens. Worth and Pillow and other
-distinguished officers on the other, and was more or less interested in
-the protracted military investigations which followed the war. In this
-way he made the military history of the war a careful study, and he
-studied not only carefully but intelligently. His military education,
-his actual service in the war, his taste for military studies, the
-position which he held on Pillow’s staff, and his very decided ability
-fitted him peculiarly to be the military historian of the war. In order
-to write his history he obtained a protracted leave of absence, and
-devoted himself faithfully to his work. That he was prejudiced against
-both Gen. Scott and Gen. Taylor, and criticizes both of these eminent
-soldiers too severely, and very unjustly, is true, but he tells the
-story of the campaign with singular fidelity and in a masterly way.
-He understood what was done and has told it in a style worthy of the
-great deeds which he narrates. His obstinate temper, his prejudice,
-and his contentious spirit are too often apparent, but we pardon them
-in reading his luminous account of the many intricate movements of
-the troops, and the wonderful battles which were fought in the Valley
-of Mexico. However unjust his criticisms, they are always able and
-dignified, and compel our respect.
-
-It is not strange that he did not appreciate the romantic performances
-of Kearney and Doniphan and Fremont, for he viewed all things as one
-fresh from the Military Academy, where are taught the duties of a
-soldier, not those of a statesman, and he was still a youth of 26 when
-he wrote his history. He could not understand the meaning of Kearney’s
-long march across the desert, of Doniphan’s wonderful expedition, or of
-Fremont’s daring exploits and strange adventures. He did not see that
-statesmen had duties more important than those of the soldier, and that
-Doniphan and Kearney and Fremont were adding an empire to the Union,
-while Scott and Taylor were covering our armies with undying glory and
-securing the possession of the conquests which our little armies were
-making in New Mexico and California.
-
-A soldier of distinction, (Stevens,) in reviewing the book, says:
-“The work is professedly critical, and much space is devoted to the
-discussion of the political and military movements of both Mexico and
-the United States. A very thorough exposition has been made of both
-campaigns and of battles. The style is decidedly good. His view of the
-origin of the war is eminently just and told in sufficient detail.”
-
-The freedom with which he, a mere subaltern, criticizes the conduct
-of such veterans as Scott and Taylor, both of them his superior
-officers, and one of them the President of the United States and
-Commander-in-Chief of the Army, is remarkable.
-
-After commenting on Taylor’s mistakes at Palo Alto and criticizing
-severely his movement upon Monterey, he denounces his generalship in
-that battle and the armistice which followed. As to Buena Vista, he
-evidently thinks that it was won in spite of Taylor, and he says that
-the battle was saved once by the brilliant courage and hard fighting
-of Davis’s Mississippi regiment, and again by the timely and splendid
-execution of Bragg’s battery; that Davis suggested his own movement,
-and that Bragg moved without orders in the direction of the plateau,
-and both came in at the proper hour, and were both successful――giving
-fresh proof of the “supremacy of fortune in war.”
-
-His criticisms of Scott are intensely bitter, and he says that the
-first great cause of American success in the operations around the
-City of Mexico lay in the bravery and courage of the army, and not in
-the ability and skill of the General-in-Chief, who (in our author’s
-opinion) gave more attention to politics and his own personal position
-than to the operations of the war.
-
-Santa Anna is skillfully and ably portrayed, and appears as the most
-remarkable figure on either side. Ripley charges that Scott was
-successfully duped by the Mexican from the outset of his movement from
-Puebla till the capture of the city.
-
-With all its faults, this book of Ripley’s is the very best history
-of the war with Mexico that has been written, and it will probably
-always remain the standard military history of the war, as Kinglake’s
-is of the Crimean contest, and Napier’s of the Peninsular War――the
-two military histories of surpassing excellence. Its author, who is
-still alive and in the perfection of his powers, ought to revise it
-by the light of subsequent events, and leave it to his country as an
-imperishable record of the most glorious war which the Union has ever
-fought.
-
-
-    THE MEXICAN WAR: A History of its Origin, with a detailed
-      Account of its Victories, which terminated in the Surrender
-      of the Capital, with Official Despatches of the Generals. By
-      Edward D. Mansfield, a graduate of the United States Military
-      Academy. Illustrated with Maps and Engravings. New York. 1848.
-      12mo, 343 pages.
-
-This author was born in Connecticut in 1801. His father afterwards
-became the first Professor of Natural Philosophy at West Point, and
-there the son graduated in 1819. Declining a commission in the Corps
-of Engineers, he resumed his studies at Princeton and graduated there
-in 1822. He then practiced law in Connecticut, whence he removed to
-Cincinnati, and practiced law there till 1836, when he abandoned law
-for literature.
-
-The little volume before us gives a succinct but clear account of
-the origin of the war, and of the campaigns under Taylor and Scott,
-based chiefly upon the reports of those officers and other official
-documents. It must be remembered, however, that this, and indeed,
-every other history of the war, was published immediately after the
-establishment of peace, and without that knowledge of thousands of
-important facts which have since come to light and which is essential
-to a correct understanding of the diplomatic, political, and military
-history of that period. Therefore, this, like all other histories
-of the war written about that time, is necessarily imperfect and
-untrustworthy.
-
-The chief defects in Mansfield’s book spring from several facts. 1st.
-He was vehemently opposed to the annexation of Texas, and to the
-acquisition of territory. 2d. He was a warm partisan of Gen. Scott,
-whose biographer he became. 3d. His style was intensely florid, as will
-appear from the last paragraph of his book, which we quote. Speaking
-of the United States and Mexico, he says: “Egypt and her millions,
-with the famed Valley of the Nile, fade before the broad magnificence,
-the mighty growth, of those American empires. Even the terrible and
-far-seeing eagles of Rome grow dizzy and dim in their sight as they
-look down from the summits of history upon these continental nations,
-these colossal giants of the modern world. And now this Spaniard and
-this Northman meet in battle panoply in this valley of volcanoes,
-by the ancient groves of unknown nations, on the lava-covered soil
-where nature once poured forth her awe-inspiring flames and the brave
-Tlascalan once sung of glory and of greatness. Three centuries since,
-these warrior nations had left their homes beyond the wide Atlantic;
-two thousand miles from each other they had planted the seats of their
-empire; and now, as if time, in the moral world, had completed another
-of its grand revolutions, they have met in mortal conflict. Like the
-eagle and the vulture, who long had pursued different circles in the
-heavens, and long made prey of the weak tenants of the air, their
-circles have been enlarged till they cross each other. They shriek!
-They fight! The victorious eagle bears the vulture to the earth, and
-screams forth through the clouds his triumphant song! Has the bold
-bird received no wound? Has no blood tinged the feathers of his wing?
-Is there no secret flow of life from the portals of his heart? Will he
-continue to look with unblenched eye on the blazing glories of the sun?”
-
-
-    THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. Illustrated.
-      Embracing Pictorial Drawings of all the Principal Conflicts. By
-      Carl Nebel. With a Description of each Battle by George Wilkins
-      Kendall. D. Appleton & Co. New York. 1851.
-
-This is a large royal folio volume, with twelve full-page colored
-lithographs, speaking of which the author and the artist say that “no
-country can claim that its battles have been illustrated in a richer,
-more faithful, or more costly style of lithography.”
-
-The author of this book was a native of Vermont, but moved to New
-Orleans in 1835, and became widely known as the editor of the
-_Picayune_. He was a man of adventurous disposition and decided
-ability, and wrote prior to the war several books which acquired great
-popularity. At the outbreak of the Mexican War he volunteered to serve
-on the staff of Gen. Taylor. He was with that officer throughout his
-campaigns, and afterwards accompanied Gen. Scott’s column on its march
-to the City of Mexico. He was consequently an eye-witness of the scenes
-which he describes. His descriptions are vivid and real, and place
-him high in the ranks of war correspondents. His book, though hardly
-deserving a place among histories, will always be a rich storehouse
-from which historians will gather materials for their more pretentious
-and more lasting works. He was a brilliant correspondent, and, strange
-to say, a truthful story-teller.
-
-Mr. Nebel’s illustrations are valuable as truthful pictures of the
-costumes of the contending armies, and of the scenes which they
-illustrate, but, like all battle pictures, they are highly imaginative.
-
-
-    A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN WAR――ITS CAUSES, CONDUCT AND
-      CONSEQUENCES: Comprising an Account of the various Military and
-      Naval Operations, from its Commencement to the Treaty of Peace.
-      Illustrated and explained by Maps, Plans of Battles, Views and
-      Portraits. By Nathan C. Brooks, A. M., Member of the Maryland
-      Historical Society, etc. Philadelphia. 1849. 8vo, 558 pages.
-
-This handsome volume is the best general history of the Mexican War,
-far better than any of them with the exception of Ripley’s, which is
-in some particulars, and especially as a military history, very much
-better than Brooks’s and all other histories of this war. Mr. Brooks,
-brought to the work qualifications and experience which fitted him
-particularly to write charmingly the story of a romantic war. He was
-in the prime of a life which had been passed among books; had been a
-teacher and journalist; had edited gracefully and learnedly a series
-of Greek and Latin classics; was a student, historian, and poet. His
-judgment was impartial and his taste refined and highly cultivated. He
-was a believer in the manifest destiny of his country, and sympathized
-earnestly with those who sought to benefit mankind by enlarging “the
-area of freedom.” His heart was with the armies which had marched
-towards the “Halls of the Montezumas,” and he studied the reports of
-their campaigns, not only eagerly, but faithfully and intelligently――by
-the light of a student’s knowledge and the inspiration of a highly
-poetic fancy.
-
-Written at a time when but a tithe of the material which now awaits the
-historian’s plastic hand was before him; when the great mass of state
-papers, memoirs and reminiscences which disclose the truth as to the
-negotiations which preceded the annexation of Texas and the initiation
-of the war, as well as the events of the conflict itself, were still
-unpublished and inaccessible; when absolutely nothing was known to
-us of the negotiations of the Mexican Government except through its
-correspondence with ours, and when nothing had been ascertained of its
-military operations except as disclosed upon the battlefield――it is
-not to be wondered that Mr. Brooks’s history is characterized as being
-more interesting and attractive than accurate and instructive, since
-he neither fully understood the great events which he was narrating
-nor foresaw the great consequences which were to flow from them; nor,
-moreover, had he learned the lessons which they taught, by which this
-generation will profit.
-
-The fault which we find with his book is one common to all histories,
-not strictly military, which treat of wars that have just happened;
-we refer to its extremely prolix descriptions of battles. The reader,
-however, can pass over such parts of these as do not interest him, and
-will lose little save the noise and fury of the fights and the lurid
-phrases which describe them.
-
-The most felicitous chapters of the book are those which tell the
-story of the conquest of New Mexico and California, and of Doniphan’s
-romantic expedition. To tell these stories well and truly the historian
-needed all his poetic fancy, and all that rich and exuberant diction
-with which nature and study had so bountifully endowed him. These
-chapters recall the pictured pages of Prescott, and are not unworthy of
-the historian of the Conquest.
-
-
-    PICTORIAL HISTORY OF MEXICO AND THE MEXICAN WAR: Comprising an
-      Account of the Ancient Aztec Empire, the Conquest by Cortez,
-      Mexico under the Spaniards, the Mexican Revolution, the
-      Republic, the Texan War, and the recent War with the United
-      States. By John Frost, L.L.D., author of the Pictorial History
-      of the World, etc. Embellished with 500 Engravings of W. Croome
-      and other distinguished Artists. 8vo. Philadelphia. 1856.
-
-Nearly five hundred pages of this volume are devoted to the Mexican
-War. The author, who was born in Maine in 1800, studied at Bowdoin, and
-then at Harvard, where he graduated in 1822. He then taught school,
-first at Boston and afterwards at Philadelphia, till 1845. After that
-time he gave himself up exclusively to the compilation of his many
-pictorial histories, all of which achieved great popularity, and
-deserved it.
-
-His intention seemed always to be to write readable and saleable books.
-To do this he was well fitted by his predilection for historical
-composition, and his great experience as a teacher. His style was
-natural and simple and perspicuous. The arrangement of his subject was
-orderly, and there was in his grouping of facts a picturesqueness which
-was somewhat fascinating and always pleasing. He was not a philosopher,
-or an erudite historian, nor did he pretend to be either――hence we are
-not to look in his works for any profound thoughts, or for any facts
-which are not the common property of every one.
-
-He had no prejudices, no enthusiasms, no theories to maintain, no
-heroes to exalt and magnify. He wrote to please and to sell――to please
-that he might sell. Taking the official reports of battle and the
-state papers at Washington, he drew from them an intelligible statement
-of the main facts which he intended to narrate, and then, with good
-taste and consummate skill, made the dry details interesting and indeed
-captivating by weaving among them stories of American prowess, and such
-heroic deeds and patriotic daring as were easily found in the letters
-of war correspondents and hero-worshipers. He also availed himself
-of the multitude of memoirs and books of adventure which flooded the
-country immediately after the war, and thus made his book partake of
-that patriotic fervor which the splendid achievements of our troops in
-Mexico had kindled in the heart of every American. He has thrown into
-it the charm that lingers in the wonderful stories of Herodotus. Had he
-not done this, his book would have remained unsold on the shelves of
-his publishers, and would not have taken its place in every household
-by the side of Parson Weem’s veracious chronicles and “The Tales of a
-Grandfather.”
-
-It follows from what has been said that Frost’s work on the Mexican
-War is not a book for the students of either military or diplomatic
-history, nor for those who wish to learn the true history of the war,
-or the real truth as to the deeds which were then done, or, as to the
-men who did them, what manner of men they were, and what their motives,
-nor, lastly, as to the mighty results of the contest. Nevertheless, it
-is a good book and well worth a reading by those who want merely an
-intelligible and interesting account of the events which it narrates.
-
-It would hardly be fair to dismiss the book without referring to the
-500 engravings wherewith it is “embellished from designs of W. Croome
-and other distinguished artists” whose invaluable services Mr. Frost
-gratefully acknowledges. They are simply wonderful. We open, by hazard,
-at page 458. Before us is a picture of Fremont in his famous ride
-from Los Angeles “to Monterey and back; a journey of more than 800
-miles, performed in eight days, including two days’ detention and all
-stoppages.” This is more than 130 miles in a day. Look at the splendid
-charger whose flowing mane and mud-tossed tail and flying form brings
-to mind the magic horses of the “Arabian Nights”! See how he skims
-over the plains, disdaining to touch the earth with his hoofs! And see
-how erect the rider sits upon his flying steed, riding night and day
-through the trackless plains, _en grande tenue_, not a speck of dirt on
-his gold-embroidered, epauletted coat of blue; not a trace of the soil
-upon his immaculate trousers; not a sign of fatigue upon the earnest
-face which the three-cornered hat protects from sun and storm; nor any
-weariness in the stalwart arm, whose gloved hand carries a naked sword,
-holding it in strict conformity to Army regulations! Look and wonder!
-Certainly, this is further beyond our criticism than are the glowing
-canvases whereon Horace Vernet has immortalized the fields of French
-glory.
-
-The literature of the war, as has been before remarked, is devoid of
-any novels of distinguished merit, and has not been rich in poetic
-inspiration. But during the period of hostilities, and amidst the
-political excitement that followed, James Russell Lowell began in a
-leading Boston paper a series of political satires on the war, in the
-Yankee dialect, purporting to be written by Hosea Biglow. These satires
-were afterwards collected in a volume with Lowell’s works, and are
-known as the “Biglow Papers.” Their wit and vigor are admirable. The
-character of Parson Wilbur, to whom is attributed the introduction,
-notes and index, is a comic creation full of delight. The whole is
-a rare repository of fun, and Hosea is the embodiment of the native
-humor and homely mother wit of the Yankee race. It is one of the most
-ingenious and well sustained _jeux d’esprit_ in existence. It is
-perhaps not too much to say that it is the best burlesque poem that
-has appeared since Samuel Butler, in the first part of “Hudibras,”
-ridiculed the austerities of the Puritan leaders of the seventeenth
-century with his shining and merciless wit.
-
-By far the most brilliant poetic production of the period is the
-elegiac ode, by Theodore O’Hara, a poet, soldier and editor, of
-Kentucky. It is entitled the “Bivouac of the Dead,” and had its origin
-in the occasion of the interment, at Frankfort, in 1847, of the gallant
-soldiers who fell in battle. It is noted for its rare beauty of style,
-its genuine pathos, its descriptive ideality, its heroic vigor, and its
-patriotic fervor. Genuine appreciation and candid criticism will place
-it with Wolfe’s “Burial of Sir John Moore” and Collins’s “How Sleep the
-Brave,” among the classic lyric gems of the language. Its lines are
-used for inscriptions upon the tombs of heroes all over the land, and
-one of its immortal stanzas adorns the National Cemetery at Arlington
-Heights. It goes to the heart of every true soldier, and is likely
-to remain enshrined there forever. Mention must also be made of the
-admiration which lingers about the pensive beauty, the pathetic grace,
-and the vivid picture of Whittier’s “Angels of Buena Vista.”
-
-The excitement in the public mind occasioned by the war caused many
-remarkable discussions, and the pulpit of New England, with its usual
-disposition to intermeddle in political affairs, was not tardy in
-presenting its opinions. The most distinguished preacher of the time,
-Theodore Parker, in words of burning eloquence denounced all wars, and
-the injustice of this one, and with elaborate figures estimated its
-cost and expenses at two hundred millions of dollars, and, weighing
-this sum against the value of our acquisition, pronounced the war
-profitless, and asked, contemptuously, “What have we got to show for
-all this money?”
-
-In the light of the present hour, the mere beginning that has been
-made in the development of the acquired regions will afford a partial
-answer to illustrate the lack of historic prescience that blinded
-the perceptions of the time. The growth of these new countries seems
-to point to a period, not far distant, when they shall contain a
-population as great as that which inhabits the Cis-Mississippi States.
-
-The new apportionment bill which has just been enacted gives to the
-States already erected in this region almost as many Representatives in
-Congress as all New England, and another decade will show that it has
-passed far in advance in wealth and population. California, Arizona,
-New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah from their mines alone have added more
-than two thousand millions of dollars to the world’s wealth, and are
-now yielding more than one-third of the annual product of gold and
-silver in the entire world. Two Pacific railways, the greatest feats
-of modern engineering, traversing the regions that were said to be
-“occupied with broken mountains and dreary wilds,” and “fit only for
-the restless hunter and wandering trapper,” have revolutionized the
-commerce of the world. England seeks Australia and New Zealand through
-the Golden Gate, and the productions of China and Japan flow to our
-magnificent harbors of the Pacific and cross the American continent on
-their way to supply the demands of Europe.
-
-The archæological discoveries in these regions disclose a prehistoric
-occupancy by a race that founded great cities and built palaces and
-temples, and who shall say, that, under the dominion of the Anglo
-Saxon, the glories of their antiquity may not be surpassed? Who shall
-say what mighty results shall flow from the contest which began when
-Gen. Taylor crossed the Nueces in the march to the Rio Grande?
-
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-
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-                   LIST OF BOOKS ON THE MEXICAN WAR.
-
-
-BRACKETT, A. G.
-
-    “Gen. Lane’s Brigade in Central Mexico.” 1 vol., 12mo. Cincinnati.
-        1854.
-
-
-BROOKS, N. C.
-
-    “History of the Mexican War.” 8vo. Baltimore. 1849.
-
-
-CARLETON, J. H.
-
-    “Battle of Buena Vista.” 16mo. New York. 1848.
-
-
-CUTTS, J. M.
-
-    “Conquest of California and New Mexico.” 12mo. Philadelphia. 1847.
-
-
-EDWARDS, F. S.
-
-    “Campaign in New Mexico.” 12mo. Philadelphia. 1847.
-
-
-FROST, J.
-
-    “Pictorial History of Mexico and the Mexican War.” 8vo. Philadelphia.
-        1856.
-
-
-GIDDINGS, Major.
-
-    “Campaign of Northern Mexico.” 12mo. New York. 1853.
-
-
-HENRY, W. S.
-
-    “Campaign Sketches of War with Mexico.” 12mo. New York. 1847.
-
-
-HUGHES, J. T.
-
-    “Doniphan’s Expedition.” 12mo. Cincinnati. 1848.
-
-
-JAY, W.
-
-    “Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.” 12mo. Boston. 1849.
-
-
-KENDALL, G. W.
-
-    “Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition.” 2 vols., 12mo. New
-        York. 1847.
-
-
-KENDALL, G. W.
-
-    “The War between the United States and Mexico.” Royal folio.
-
-
-LIVERMORE, N.
-
-    “War with Mexico Reviewed.” 12mo. Boston. 1850. New York. 1851.
-
-
-MANSFIELD, E. D.
-
-    “Life and Services of Gen. Winfield Scott.” 12mo. New York. 1852.
-
-
-MEYER, BRANTZ.
-
-    “Mexico.” 2 vols., 8mo. Hartford. 1853.
-
-
-RAMSEY, A. C.
-
-    “The Other Side.” 12mo. New York. 1852.
-
-
-REYNOLDS, J. G.
-
-    “Marine Corps in Mexico.” 8vo. New York. 1853.
-
-
-RICHARDSON, W. H.
-
-    “Journal of a Soldier in Mexico.” 12mo. Baltimore. 1848.
-
-
-RICHARDSON, W. H.
-
-    “Journal with Col. Doniphan.” 12mo. Baltimore. 1848.
-
-
-RIPLEY, R. S.
-
-    “War with Mexico.” 2 vols. 8vo. New York. 1849.
-
-
-SCRIBNER, B. F.
-
-    “A Campaign in Mexico.” 8vo. Philadelphia. 1850.
-
-
-SEMMES, R.
-
-    “Service During the War.” 8vo. Cincinnati. 1851.
-
-
-SEMMES, R.
-
-    “Campaign in Mexico.” 12mo. Cincinnati. 1852.
-
-
-STEVENS, J. J.
-
-    “Campaigns on the Rio Grande and in Mexico.” 8vo. New York. 1851.
-
-
-SIMPSON, JAS. H.
-
-    “Journal of a Military Reconnoissance.” 8vo. Philadelphia. 1852.
-
-
-THORPE, T. B.
-
-    “Our Army on the Rio Grande.” 12mo. Philadelphia. 1846.
-
-
-THORPE, T. B.
-
-    “Our Army at Monterey.” 12mo. Philadelphia. 1848.
-
-
-WILLARD, E.
-
-    “Last Leaves of American History.” 12mo. New York. 1849.
-
-
-WOODWARD, ASHBEL.
-
-    “Life of General N. Lyon.” Hartford. 1862.
-
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