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UNITED STATES MILITARY HISTORY:

MEXICAN WAR 1846-1848

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Anderson, Robert. An Artillery Officer in the Mexican War, 1846-7: Letters of Robert Anderson, Captain 3rd Artillery, USA. Edited by Eba Anderson Lawton. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911.

Archer, J. J. "A Marylander in the Mexican War; Some Letters of J. J. Archer." Edited by C. A. Porter Hopkins. Maryland Historical Magazine, (December 1959), pp. .

Barbour, Philip Norbourne. Journals of the Late Philip Norbourne Barbour, Captain of the 3rd Regiment ... and his wife ... Written during the War with Mexico, 1846 .... New York: 1936.

Barton, Henry W. "Five Texas Frontier Companies During the Mexican War." Southwestern Historical Quarterly, (July 1962), pp. .

Bauer, K. Jack. Surfboats and Horse Marines: U.S. Naval Operations in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1969.

-----. The Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York: Macmillan Co., 1974.

-----. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

Beauregard, Pierre G. T. With Beauregard in Mexico; the Mexican War reminiscences of P. G. T. Beauregard. Edited by T. Harry Williams. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1956.

Bennett, Charles. "The Mexican War Drawings of Lachlan Allan Maclean." El Palacio, 95 (Fall/Winter 1989), pp. 66-69.

Bergeron, Paul H. The Presidency of James K. Polk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987.

Bill, Alfred Hoyt. Rehearsal for Conflict; the War with Mexico, 1846-1848. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.

Boyett, Gene W. "Money and Maritime Activities in New Orleans During the Mexican War." Louisiana History, 17 (Fall 1976), pp. 413-429.

Chidsey, Donald Barr. The War with Mexico. New York: Crown Publishers, 1968.

Clarke, Dwight L. Stephen Watts Kearny: Soldier of the West. 1961.

Collins, John R. "Mexican War: A Study in Fragmentation." Journal of the West, (April 1972), pp. .

Conner, Philip S. The Home Squadron Under Commodore Conner in the War With Mexico. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1896.

Connor, Seymour V., and Odie B. Faulk. North America Divided: The Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

-----. "Attitudes and Opinions about the Mexican War, 1846-1970." Journal of the West, (April 1972), pp. 361-366.

Cox, Leander M. "Mexican War Journal of Leander M. Cox." Edited by Charles F. Hinds. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, (January, July 1957), pp. .

Davies, Thomas M., Jr. "Assessments During the Mexican War An Exercise in Futility." New Mexico Historical Review, (July 1966), pp. .

Dittman, Ralph E. "Santa Anna's Battle of New Orleans." Louisiana History, (Spring 1984), pp. 189-197.

Driver, Les. "Carrillo's Flying Artillery: The Battle of San Pedro." California Historical Society Quarterly, (December 1969), pp. 335-349.

Durham, Walter T. "Mexican War Letters to Wynnewood." Tennessee Historical Quarterly, (Winter 1974), pp. 389-409.

Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far From God: The U.S. War With Mexico. New York: Random House, 1989.

Elliott, Charles W. Winfield Scott, the Soldier and the Man. New York: Macmillan, 1937.

Eubank, Damon R. "Kentucky in the Mexican War: Public Responses, 1846-1848." Ph.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1989.

Falccus, Elmer W. "Commodore David Porter and the Mexican Navy." Hispanic American Historical Review, (August 1954), pp. .

Forris, Jonathan T. "Michael Kelly Lawler (1814-82): Mexican and Civil War Officer." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, (Winter 1956), pp. .

Frost, John. The Mexican War and Its Warriors. Philadelphia: 1848.

Gamble, Richard Dalzell. "Garrison Life at Frontier Military Posts, 1830-1869." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1956.

Garrett, Jenkins. The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848: A Bibliography of the Holdings of the Libraries, The University of Texas at Arlington. Edited by Katherine R. Goodwin. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995.

Graebner, Norman A. "Lessons of the Mexican War." Pacific Historical Review, (August 1978), pp. 325-342.

Gregg, Josiah. Diary & Letters of Josiah Gregg: Southwestern Enterprises, 1840-1847. Edited by Maurice Garland Fulton. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941.

Grivas, Theodore. Military Governments in California, 1846-1850, with a Chapter on Their Use in Louisiana, Florida, and New Mexico. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1963.

Hamilton, Holman. Zachary Taylor, Soldier of the Republic. 1941.

Heidler, Jeanne Twiggs. "The Military Career of David Emanuel Twiggs." Ph.D. Dissertation, Auburn University, 1988.

Henry, Robert S. The Story of the Mexican War. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1950.

Henry, William S. Campaign Sketches of the War With Mexico. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847.

Higham, C. L. "Songs of the Mexican War: An Interpretation of Sources." Journal of the West, 28 (July 1989), pp. 16-23.

Hindman, Thomas C. "A Letter Written by General Thomas C. Hindman in Mexico." Edited by Ted R. Worley. Arkansas Historical Quarterly, (Winter 1956), pp. .

Hinton, Harwood Perry. "The Military Career of John Elias Wool, 1812-1863." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1960.

Hitchcock, Ethan Allan. Fifty Years in Camp and Field; Diary of Major-General Ethan Allan Hitchcock, U.S.A. Edited by W. A. Croffut. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.

Hostetter, John D. "The Second Dragoons and American Expansion: 1836-1861." Master's Thesis, Florida State University.

Houston, Donald E. "The Role of Artillery in the Mexican War." Journal of the West, (April 1972), pp. .

Irey, Thomas R. "Soldier, Suffering and Dying in the Mexican War." Journal of the West, (April 1972), pp. .

Kirkham, Ralph W. The Mexican War Journal and Letters of Ralph W. Kirkham. Edited by Robert Ryal Miller. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991.

Kuehl, Daniel T. "'Double-Shot Your Guns and Give 'Em Hell!' Braxton Bragg and the War in Mexico." Civil War History, 37 (March 1991), pp. 51-65.

Lane, Henry S. "The Mexican War Journal of Henry S. Lane." Edited by Graham A. Barringer. Indiana Magazine of History, (December 1957), pp. .

Lofgren, Charles A. "Force and Diplomacy, 1846-1848: The View From Washington." Military Affairs, 31 (Summer 1967), pp. 57-64.

McCaffrey, James Michael. "The American Soldier in the War with Mexico, 1846-1848: 'American Blood on American Soil'." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Houston, 1990.

McCall, George A. Letters From The Frontiers. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1868.

McClellan, George B. The Mexican War Diary of George B. McClellan. Edited by William Starr Myers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1917.

McDaniel, Isaac. "The Impact of the Mexican War on Anti-Catholicism in the United States." Ph.D. Dissertation, Notre Dame University, 1991.

McNaughton, Marion R. "James Walker--Combat Artist of Two American Wars." Military Collector and Historian, 9 (Summer 1957), pp. 33-35.

McWhiney, Grady, and Sue McWhiney, editors. To Mexico with Taylor and Scott, 1845-1847. Waltham: Blaisdell Publishing Co., 1969.

May, Robert E. John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

Michael, Steven B. "Ohio and the Mexican War: Public Response to the 1846-1848 Crisis." Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1985.

-----. "A Year's Campaign: Dewitt C. Loudon's Mexican War." Timeline, 9 (April/May 1992), pp. 18-33.

Miller, Roger C. "Yellow Jack at Vera Cruz." Prologue, 10 (Spring 1978), pp. 42-53.

Mullins, William H. "The British Press and the Mexican War: Justin Smith Revised." New Mexico Historical Review, (July 1977), pp. 207-227.

Nelson, Anna Louise Kasten. "The Secret Diplomacy of James K. Polk During the Mexican War, 1846-1847." Ph.D. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1972.

-----. "Secret Agents and Security Leaks: President Polk and the Mexican War." Journalism Quarterly, (Spring 1975), pp. 9-14.

Oberly, James W. "Military Bounty Land Warrants of the Mexican War." Prologue, 14 (Spring 1982), pp. 25-34.

Patrick, Rembert W. Aristocrat in Uniform: General Duncan L. Clinch. 1963.

Peterson, Charles J. The Military Heroes of the War with Mexico.

Peterson, Clarence S. Known Military Dead During the Mexican War, 1846-48. Baltimore: Privately printed, 1957.

Polk, James K. The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849. Edited by Milo M. Quaife. 4 vols. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1910.

-----. Correspondence of James K. Polk. Edited by Wayne Cutler, Earl J. Smith, and Carese M. Parker. vols. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, .

Reeves, Jesse S. American Diplomacy under Tyler and Polk. Baltimore: 1907.

-----. "The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo." American Historical Review, 10 (January 1905), pp. 309-324.

Reilly, Tom "'The War Press of New Orleans': 1846-1848." Journalism History, 13 (Autumn/Winter 1986), pp. 86-95.

Richmond, Douglas W., editor. Essays on the Mexican War. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986.

Ripley, Roswell. The War With Mexico. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1849.

Ryan, Daniel J. "Ohio in the Mexican War." Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, 21 (April-July 1912), pp. 277-295.

Sandweiss, Martha A.; Rick Stewart; and Ben W. Huseman. Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Sellers, Charles G. James K. Polk, Jacksonian, 1795-1843. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.

Silver, James W. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Frontier General. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949.

Singletary, Otis A. The Mexican War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.

Smith, George Winston, and Charles Judah, editors. Chronicles of the Gringos: The U.S. Army in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1968.

Smith, Gustavus W. "Company A Engineers in Mexico, 1846-1847." Military Engineer, (September-October 1964), pp. .

Smith, Justin H. The War with Mexico. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Co., 1919.

Spurlin, Charles. "Camp Life of the Texas Volunteer in the Mexican War." Texana, (1974), pp. 248-263.

Stevens, Hazard. The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900.

Tutorow, Norman E., compiler. The Mexican-American War: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Tyler, Ronnie C. "Mexican War: A Lithographic Record." Southwestern Historical Quarterly, (July 1973), pp. 1-84.

Wallace, Edward S. General William Jenkins Worth. 1953.

-----. "Deserters in the Mexican War." Hispanic American Historical Review, (August 1935), pp. .

Wallace, Lee A., Jr. "Raising a Volunteer Regiment for Mexico, 1846-1847." North Carolina Historical Review, (January 1958), pp. .

Wilcox, Cadmus M. History of the Mexican War. Washington: Church News Publishing Co., 1892.

Winders, Richard Bruce. "Mr. Polk's Army: Politics, Patronage, and the American Military in the Mexican War." Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1994.

 

Government Documents

U.S. Congress. Senate. Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico, Connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition, in 1846 and 1847. [By A. Wizlizenus, M.D.] Senate Miscellaneous Document 26, 30th Congress, 1st Session, Serial 511, 1847-48.

U.S. Congress. House. Notes of a Military Reconnaissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California. [By Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Emory.] House Document 41, 30th Congress, 1st Session, Serial 517, 1847-48.

-----. -----. Report of Lieut. J. W. Abert, of his Examination of New Mexico, in the Years 1846-47. House Document 41, 30th Congress, 1st Session, Serial 517, 1847-48.