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
Taylor's Campaigns
Alberts, Don E. "The Battle of Peralta." New Mexico Historical Review, (October 1983), pp. 369-379.
Dana, Napoleon J. T. Monterrey Is Ours! The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana, 1845-1847. Edited by Robert H. Ferrell. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Dillon, Lester R., Jr. "American Artillery in the Mexican War, 1846-1847." Military History of Texas and the Southwest, (1973), pp. 7-30, 109-127, 149-172.
Giddings, Luther. Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexico in Eighteen Hundred Forty-six and Seven. New York: George P. Putnam and Co., 1853.
Haley, James Evetts. Fort Congo and the Texas Frontier. San Angelo, Tex.: San Angelo Standard-Times, 1952.
Hamilton, Holman. Zachary Taylor: Soldier of the Republic. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1941.
Kreneck, Thomas H. "The North Texas Regiment in the Mexican War." Military History of Texas and the Southwest, 12 (), pp. 110-117.
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.
Lavender, David. Climax at Buena Vista. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.
McKinley, Silas Bent, and Silas Bent. Old Rough and Ready: The Life and Times of Zachary Taylor. New York: Vanguard Press, 1946.
Nichols, Edward J. Zach Taylor's Little Army. Garden City: Doubleday, 1963.
Roberts, Thomas D. "Resaca de la Palma: A Traditional Episode in the History of the Second Cavalry." Military Affairs, 1 (Fall 1937), pp. 101-107.
Sanchez, Joseph P. "General Mariano Arista at the Battle of Palo Alto, Texas, 1846: Military Realist or Failure?" Journal of the West, (April 1985), pp. 8-21.
Smith, Persifer F. "The Second Brigade, at Monterey." Historical Magazine, 3d Ser., 3 (March 1874), pp. 138-140.
Taylor, Zachary. Letters of Zachary Taylor from the Battlefields of the Mexican War. Edited by William K. Bixby. Rochester, N.Y.: Genesee Press, 1908.
Wallace, Edward S. General William Jenkins Worth, Monterey's Forgotten Hero. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1953.
Walworth, Ellen Hardin. "The Battle of Buena Vista." Magazine of American History, 3 (December 1879), pp. 705-738.
1. Includes information on engagements represented on the Army Flag by the streamers: Palo Alto (8 May 1846); Resaca de la Palma (9 May 1846); Monterey (21 September 1846); and Buena Vista (22-23 February 1847).