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  Captain, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco


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id: 31113
title: Company ''A'', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-''48, in the Mexican war
author: Smith, Gustavus Woodson
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  an officer qualified to instruct and command a company of engineer of the engineer company died, and Captain Swift and twenty of the men Under orders from General Taylor, the company of engineers, reduced to to work under the directions of men of the engineer company, the engineer company from the line of investment and report to General He ordered me to report, with the engineer company, time, order such transportation for the engineer company as he deemed ordered to detail an officer and ten men of the engineer company to informed General Twiggs that the engineer company was at Plan Del Rio, W. Smith, in command of the engineer company, and Lieutenant McClellan, received orders to move the company, its train, and the general engineer and ten men of the engineer company to report to General Worth. General Worth directed me to bring forward the engineer company, which


id: 23744
title: Ahead of the Army
author: Stoddard, William O.
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  Señor Zuroaga also had now walked away, and Ned was left to hold by his The captain turned away to his duties, and Ned went forward among the "Good morning, señor!" said Ned. "No," said Ned; "I don''t know anything about the States of Mexico. Ned Crawford had read the story of the conquest of Mexico, like a great "I''ll sit right down and begin one," said Ned, but the señor interrupted "I''ll be ready, colonel," said Ned, when his turn came to speak, and the "One of the men will take your bag," said the colonel to Ned, as soon as "Good morning, Señora Tassara," said Ned, as he bowed and tried to walk Ned, from New York by way of England, and now a good young Mexican for "To see Señora Paez and General Zuroaga," said Ned. "General Tassara," said Ned, "isn''t our army bringing one?"


id: 21240
title: The Lone Ranche
author: Reid, Mayne
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  The brave words had scarce passed from Walt Wilder''s lips when the death-dealing bullets, till the plain appeared strewn with dead bodies. said, "Let us die, not like dogs, but as men--as Americans!" Hamersley did think so; but Walt, an old prairie man, more skilled in At length Walt appeared to have reached the top, when Hamersley heard an'' whar thar''s a woman Frank Hamersley ain''t likely to be let die o'' Nothing like our New Mexican wine for bringing back a sick man to so long as they are mounted on good horses, carry rifles in their hands, "Uraga!" exclaims Hamersley, the word coming mechanically from his red Colonel Miranda, having told the tale of his perilous escape, for a time For it comes back to his memory, that at the time of Colonel Miranda''s Hamersley, taking leave of Adela Miranda, feels this as does Walt Wilder


id: 4367
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  major-general and then placing him in command of the army, but Congress General Worth had the troops in line, under arms, all day, with three commanding general that these troops would move north sufficiently far General Scott soon followed the troops into the city, in state. troops at the best points to guard the roads leading into the city, left at once ordered General Smith to send a force up the west bank of the from General Halleck saying that I had command of all the troops sent to LIEUTENANT-GENERAL--COMMANDING THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES--FIRST enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great This was guarded by a division of colored troops, commanded by General On the 24th of May, the 9th army corps, commanded by Major-General A. ordered two divisions of the 6th corps, General Wright commanding, that General Butler commanding the army from which the troops were taken for


id: 1068
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  LIEUTENANT-GENERAL--COMMANDING THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES--FIRST enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great The 5th corps, General Warren commanding, was in advance on the right, This was guarded by a division of colored troops, commanded by General MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac. Direct corps commanders to hold their troops in readiness to march at CITY POINT, VA., October 14, 1864.--12.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Cedar Creek, Va. What I want is for you to threaten the Virginia Central Railroad and On the 24th of May, the 9th army corps, commanded by Major-General A. ordered two divisions of the 6th corps, General Wright commanding, that of cavalry, of the Army of the Potomac, and a force of General Butler''s General Butler commanding the army from which the troops were taken for "General Sheridan has been ordered to send a division of troops to


id: 1067
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  arms--furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, major-general and then placing him in command of the army, but Congress General Worth had the troops in line, under arms, all day, with three commanding general that these troops would move north sufficiently far General Scott soon followed the troops into the city, in state. troops at the best points to guard the roads leading into the city, left The enemy at this time occupied a line running from the Mississippi at once ordered General Smith to send a force up the west bank of the time with a force of 6,000 men was sent out into west Kentucky, About the time the advance of troops reached a point each of the division commanders that day, several times, and my reinforcement of near 8,000 men, General Ord in command. from General Halleck saying that I had command of all the troops sent to


id: 5865
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6.
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  There have been about sixteen thousand men sent from Lee''s army south. the enemy''s cavalry under General Wade Hampton, passing our extreme left forced march was necessary in order to get there before Lee''s army could General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia this afternoon on On the 8th, General Warren met a force of the enemy, which had been sent 9th, General Sheridan started on a raid against the enemy''s lines of On the 24th of May, the 9th army corps, commanded by Major-General A. ordered two divisions of the 6th corps, General Wright commanding, that the north bank of the James River and joined the force General Butler of cavalry, of the Army of the Potomac, and a force of General Butler''s General Butler commanding the army from which the troops were taken for of General Ord''s that had succeeded in forcing the enemy''s lines near


id: 5860
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1.
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  arms--furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine generals and field officers of During my first year''s encampment General Scott visited West Point, and The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the While General Taylor was away with the bulk of his army, the little days later General Scott was notified that he need not go to Mexico. major-general and then placing him in command of the army, but Congress General Scott having now only nine or ten thousand men west of Vera General Worth had the troops in line, under arms, all day, with three commanding general that these troops would move north sufficiently far General Scott abstained from entering the city at this time, because Mr. Nicholas P. General Scott soon followed the troops into the city, in state. General Taylor had such armies as are not often got together.


id: 5861
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2.
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  OFFICER OF STATE TROOPS--LYON AT CAMP JACKSON--SERVICES TENDERED TO THE The day after I assumed command at Cairo a man came to me who said he from the troops at Cape Girardeau; and a day or two later General C. The day after the battle I met some officers from General Polk''s at once ordered General Smith to send a force up the west bank of the time with a force of 6,000 men was sent out into west Kentucky, General Floyd, the commanding officer, who was a man of called on the commanding officer, General C. At this time I generally spent the day at Pittsburg and returned to On the 5th General Nelson, with a division of Buell''s army, arrived at each of the division commanders that day, several times, and my Some days before I had suggested to the commanding general that I


id: 5862
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3.
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  General Sherman commanded on the right at Memphis with two of his reinforcement of near 8,000 men, General Ord in command. put no troops upon the Fulton road, and the enemy had taken advantage of operations of troops, making a good place to get an enemy into. from General Halleck saying that I had command of all the troops sent to On the 20th I ordered General McClernand with the entire command, to The enemy occupied Grand Gulf, Haines'' Bluff and Jackson with a force of McClernand''s advance met the enemy about five miles west of Port Gibson road could be cleared of McClernand''s troops I ordered up McPherson, who Vicksburg, and gave orders to all my corps commanders. On the 18th I moved along the Vicksburg road in advance of the troops Sherman was ordered back to Vicksburg, and his troops took much the same


id: 5863
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4.
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  THE ENEMY--SHERMAN CARRIES MISSIONARY RIDGE--BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN Raccoon mountains west of Chattanooga, commanded the railroad, the river arrival, and asking to have General Sherman assigned to the command of ASSUMING THE COMMAND AT CHATTANOOGA--OPENING A LINE OF SUPPLIES--BATTLE lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. East Tennessee still furnished supplies of beef, bread and forage, but I also ordered the troops in West Tennessee to points on the river and The plan of battle was for Sherman to attack the enemy''s right flank, In the battle of Chattanooga, troops from the Army of the Potomac, from Sherman had left his camp on the north side of the Tennessee River, near Sherman''s command had left their camps north of the Tennessee, near Army of the Potomac by the right flank of the enemy, or by his left. enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great


id: 5864
title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5.
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  division of Hancock''s corps, Mott commanding, was left at Todd''s when The position assumed by Hancock''s corps forced Lee to reinforce his left by Warren''s and Wright''s corps, Hancock to command all the attacking Two of his divisions were brought to the north side of the Po. Gibbon was placed to the right of Warren, and Birney in his rear as a Lee got troops back in time to protect his old line, so the This was guarded by a division of colored troops, commanded by General case the main army could follow Lee up and attack him before he had time Direct corps commanders to hold their troops in readiness to march at General Butler was ordered to send Smith with his troops reinforced, as General Wright, with the 6th corps, was ordered by a road farther give Sheridan direct command of the 6th corps and cavalry division.


id: 33568
author: Mayer, Brantz
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  the war between the United States and Mexico; but that it occurred as The state and municipal governments of Mexico were, consequently, always United States and Mexico, as exhibited by congress in all the published States of America upon the government of the Mexican republic.'' The republic, which Mexico has so long abused, the United States promptly of a powerful nation, against which the existing government of Mexico Origin of the war continued--Proposed annexation of Texas to the United Texas after the Florida treaty--President Tyler''s objects--Mexican cupidity of the United States and of Mexico as well as of Texas. States--Subterfuges--Ill feeling in Mexico on the Texas question-The war in Texas, and the unsettled state of that country, had prevented between the United States and Mexico, by virtue of the ancient rights of was an act that brought the armies of Mexico and the United States in

title:
  History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1


id: 44438
title: The War with Mexico, Volume 2 (of 2)
author: Smith, Justin Harvey
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  officer in the Mexican army and at this time comandante general of "Mexicans," said Scott, I am advancing at the head of a powerful army, Naturally Scott planned to attack the Mexican right Mexican authorities, should remain in force, although Scott''s General the Mexicans knew of Scott''s financial difficulties, and the Americans Mexican commissioners, and July 27 Santa Anna called his generals of Santa Anna, the occupation of New Mexico, the tariff in Mexican though not known to the Americans at the time (Ripley, War with Mexico, been said (Ripley, War with Mexico, ii, 289) that Scott should have had Ripley (War with Mexico, ii, 250-1) says that Scott ordered Pillow Mexicans intended to attack New Mexico (Santa Fe _Republican_, Oct. 9), Mexican allegiance during the war, obedience to American orders, and Dec. 13 Americans routed a Mexican advanced party about twenty miles =61=Scott, memoir on Mexican finances received at the war dept., Jan. 6, 1848.


id: 43590
title: The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2)
author: Stevens, Hazard
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  a great chief and steal wood?"--Council ground--Scenes--General treaty--Young Chief and others refuse--Governor Stevens''s pointed Perces--Governor Stevens invites Colonel Wright to attend country--Suspected of aiding enemy--Governor Stevens orders defensive--Enemy close the Coosaw River--General Stevens''s Governor Stevens to the Secretary of War with report of March General Palmer arrived the same day with R.R. Thompson and R.B. Metcalfe, Indian agents for Oregon tribes, who had visited the Cuyuses The second day after reaching the valley Governor Stevens, learning that Governor Stevens and General Palmer presided at opposite ends The two following days Governor Stevens explained the proposed treaties Such chiefs I hope Governor Stevens and General Governor Stevens brought and kept these various tribes of Indians within A few days after his return Governor Stevens was requested by Colonel The point on Beaufort River where General Stevens''s division landed is On the 23d General Stevens continued the march up the river, followed by


id: 43589
title: The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2)
author: Stevens, Hazard
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  General Stevens''s reports to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with worked with his men in the hay field, keeping up with the best all day, major-general, and at one time commanding the army in the war of the "General Stevens was a small, undersized, young man when he entered hour and a half each day, taking that portion of time from his study One day at Portsmouth, as Mr. Stevens was at work in his office and his young engineer officer would cross the river to supervise the works, and covered way was placed under his charge, with large working parties, for the day by Captain Lee. Lieutenant Smith took particular charge of Lieutenant Stevens took great interest in the engineer company, so Lieutenant Stevens was this day directed to assume the duties of crossed the river, and moved forward to a good camping-place. miles with great difficulty, until, coming to a good camp on our


id: 42307
title: Frank in the Woods
author: Castlemon, Harry
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  way I got through that swamp war a thing to look at. a move arter I got hold of his har, knowed that I war growin'' weak, "It looks mighty like somethin'' comin'' this way," said Dick. "Wal," said Dick, as he handed Frank the trap, "if you can get him to "Wal," said Dick, as soon as Frank had finished his story, "that war My gun war standin'' agin a tree, close by, but I knowed I too, ''cause the ole bar kept a close watch on me; but the tree war war a fine place for a bar, an'' many a trapper wouldn''t have liked the but he didn''t stop to fight ''em, cause he thought the ole trapper war "Boys," said Frank, "that little circumstance has set me to thinking. about him, ''cause I knowed he war on as good a hoss as ever tracked a


id: 42152
title: The Mormon Battalion, Its History and Achievements
author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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  Col. Cooke''s Bulletin on the Battalion''s March 51 The State of Utah''s Mormon Battalion Monument Commission 89 "Head Quarters Mormon Battalion, Mission of San Diego", under date of Great War, now happily ended, has the Mormon Battalion''s march been the Mormon Battalion notes that the command of Col. Price, numbering the affairs at Santa Fe and marched the Mormon Battalion to California. Battalion marched through Tucson and went into camp about half a mile The Battalion was under orders to march to San Diego and there join Gen. Kearny. =Col. Cooke''s Bulletin on the Battalion''s March.=--On the 30th of January Battalion''s march and the map he made of it, Colonel Cooke says: "A new =The State of Utah Mormon Battalion Monument Commission.=--This awakened United States by the Mormon Battalion. It is the purpose of the Utah State Mormon Battalion Monument Commission Page v: Efforts to Raise a Second Mormon Battalion 74 [original


id: 45072
title: How We Robbed Mexico in 1848
author: Howe, Robert Harrison
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  Prior to the Mexican war the Nation was divided over the question of the Nation consisted of 28 states, 14 of them free and 14 slave. revolt against Mexico, and Texas was declared an independent state. while the United States claimed the territory to the Rio Grande. which slave states may be formed for the American Union_. war _was forced upon Mexico cannot_." "The presence of United States troops on the edge of the disputed congress would declare war, but if Mexico should attack our troops, the United States troops are also in possession of the Republics of Hayti Representatives of the United States are at the treaty without the consent of the United States government. purpose of being used against the soldiers of the United States and to the force of Villa for the purpose of opposing the United States are to the enemies of the United States."...


