Draft as of 31 July 1995

HISTORICAL RESOURCES BRANCH

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

UNITED STATES MILITARY HISTORY:

MEXICAN WAR 1846-1848

Scott's Campaigns

 

Bauer, K. Jack. "The Veracruz Expedition of 1847." Military Affairs, 20 (Fall 1956), pp. 162-169.

Elliott, Charles Winslow. Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man. New York: Macmillan Co., 1937.

Lee, Robert E. "'We Are Our Own Trumpeters': Robert E. Lee Describes Winfield Scott's Campaign to Mexico City." Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 95 (July 1987), pp. 363-375.

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

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

Perry, Milton F. "Four Walker Paintings." Military Collector and Historian, 9 (Winter 1957), pp. 109-110.

Pohl, James W. "Influence of Antoine Henri de Jomini on Winfield Scott's Campaign in the Mexican War." Southwest Historical Quarterly, 77 (July 1973), pp. .

Scammon, E. Parker. "A Chapter of the Mexican War." Magazine of American History, 14 (December 1885), pp. 562-576. [Eyewitness memoirs]

Scott, Winfield. General Scott's Correspondence with Hon. W. L. Marcy, Secretary of War Under President Polk. Washington: 1848.

-----. Memoirs of Lieut.-General Scott, LLD. Written by Himself. 2 vols. New York: Sheldon and Co., 1864.

Semmes, Raphael. The Campaign of General Scott, in the Valley of Mexico. Cincinnati: Moore and Anderson, 1852.

Smith, Cornelius C., Jr. "Our First Amphibious Assault." Military Review, 38 (February 1959), pp. 18-28.

Smith, Edmund Kirby. To Mexico With Scott, Letters of Captain E. Kirby Smith to His Wife. Edited by Emma Jerome Blackwood. Cambridge, Mass.: 1917.

Spencer, Ivor. "Overseas War--In 1846!" Military Affairs, 9 (Winter 1945), pp. 306-313.

Swan, Guy C., III, et al. "Scott's Engineers." Military Review, 63 (March 1983), pp. 61-69. [Company A, Engineers]

Wallace, Edward S. "The United States Army in Mexico City." Military Affairs, 13 (Fall 1949), pp. 158-166.

 

1. Includes information on engagements represented on the Army Flag by the streamers: Vera Cruz (9-29 March 1847); Cerro Gordo (17 April 1847); Contreras (18-20 August 1847); Churubusco (20 August 1847); Molino del Rey (8 September 1847); and Chapultepec (13 September 1847).