1. Grant, Memoirs, vol. I, p. 53.
2. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 155.
3. DeVoto, p. 510.
4. Upton, pp. 216–18.
5. Ripley, vol. 1, pp. 575–77.
6. Grant, vol. 1, p. 95.
1. Santa Anna, The Eagle, p. 55.
2. Bancroft, History of Mexico, vol. 5, p. 277, quoted in Calcott, p. 215.
1. Calcott, pp. 10–11.
2. Ibid, p. 11.
3. Oakah Jones, p. 60.
4. Calcott, p. 78.
5. Crawford, p. 265.
1. Justin Smith, The Annexation of Texas, p. 370; Pletcher, p. 177.
2. Donelson to Calhoun, December 26, 1844. Calhoun papers.
3. Madisonian, February 21, 1845.
4. Sellers, p. 206.
5. Adams, Memoirs, vol. 12, pp. 178–79.
6. McCormac, p. 251.
7. Sellers, p. 235.
8. Jackson to Polk, May 2, 1845. Basset, vol. 6, p. 404.
9. Remini, p. 46.
10. Justin Smith, The Annexation of Texas, p. 410.
11. Price, pp. 118, 122.
12. Bancroft to Stockton, June 2, 1845.
1. Marcy to Taylor, May 28, 1845. Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 79–80.
2. Marcy to Taylor June 15, 1845. Ibid.
3. Hitchcock, p. 193.
4. Ibid., p. 197.
5. Chamberlain, pp. 140–41.
6. Meade, p. 26.
7. Hitchcock, pp. 200–201.
8. E. Kirby Smith, letters, August 28 and September 18, 1845.
9. Hitchcock, p. 203.
10. Ibid., pp. 204–6.
11. Meade, pp. 44–45.
1. Sellers, pp. 306–9.
2. Castel, “Winfield Scott.”
3. Polk, Diary, April 1, 1846, p. 69.
4. Ibid., September 29, 1845, pp. 12–13.
5. Ibid., October 24, 1845, pp. 17–18.
6. Hussey, “The Origin of the Gillespie Mission,” p. 46.
7. Ibid., p. 52.
8. Gillespie to Bancroft, November 16, 1845. California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 18(3), 1939.
9. Polk, Diary, December 2, 1845, p. 30.
10. Perkins, The Monroe Doctrine 1826–67.
11. The State of the Union Messages of the Presidents, vol. 1, pp. 634–45.
12. Sellers, p. 339.
13. Polk Diary, December 2, December 5, and December 6, p. 30.
14. Sellers, p. 331.
15. Poinsett to Van Buren, May 26, 1846, in Sellers, p. 265.
16. Sellers, pp. 336–38.
17. Slidell to Peña y Peña, December 1845. In Sellers, p. 399.
18. Polk, Diary, December 23, 1845, p. 36.
19. Slidell to Buchanan, December 27, 1845. In Sellers, p. 400.
20. Marcy to Taylor, January 13, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 90.
1. Marcy to Scott, January 13, 1846. Exec. Doc. No. 60, 30th Cong, 1st sess, p. 91.
2. Taylor to TAG, February 4, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 116.
3. Ibid, p. 117.
4. Ibid, March 8, 1846; Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 118–19.
5. Ibid, March 8, 1846; Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 118–19.
6. Ibid, March 12, 1846. Letter, Conner to Taylor from USS Falmouth (off Veracruz), March 2, 1846. Proclamation of Canales, February 1846. Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 121–23.
7. Kirby Smith, writing to wife. Progressive letter with beginning date of March 17, 1846.
8. Taylor to TAG, March 21, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 124.
9. Ibid, p. 123–25.
10. Smith’s letter to wife.
11. Ibid, March 29, 1846.
12. Minutes of an interview between Worth and Vega, on the right bank of the Rio Grande, March 28, 1846. Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 134–38.
13. Polk, Diary, February 16, 1846, pp. 52, 53.
14. Sellers, p. 402.
15. Polk, Diary, March 6 and 8, 1846, pp. 60–61.
16. Ibid, April 22, 1846, pp. 72–73.
17. Ibid, March 28, 1846, pp. 67–68.
18. Ibid, pp. 67–69.
19. Ibid, April 7, 1846, pp. 69–70.
20. Alcaraz, p. 38.
21. Hitchcock, p. 218.
22. Meade, p. 54; Barbour, p. 25. Barbour’s favorable impression of the officers was not shared by other observers.
23. Meade, p. 54.
24. Nevin, pp. 27–28.
25. Hitchcock, April 7, 1846.
26. Meade, letter, April 7, 1846, pp. 55–56.
27. Kirby Smith, letter to his wife, April 9, 1846, pp. 35–37.
28. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 117.
29. Alcaraz, p. 39.
30. Ibid. See also Wilcox, p. 42.
31. Ampudia to Taylor, April 12, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 140.
32. Taylor to Ampudia, April 12, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 139–40.
33. Meade, letter, April 15, 1846, p. 57; Alcaraz, p. 37.
34. Nevin, p. 28.
35. Taylor to TAG, April 26, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 141.
36. Polk, Diary, May 8, 1846, p. 81.
37. Ibid.
38. Sellers, p. 408.
39. Polk’s message to Congress, May 11, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 8.
1. Ferguson.
2. Alcaraz, pp. 42–44.
3. Ibid.
4. Grant, Memoirs, vol. 1, p. 92.
5. Henry, W.S., p. 104.
6. The source of information is an old manuscript owned by Colonel Bruce Aiken of Brownsville.
7. Order No. 58, dated May 7, 1846.
8. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 164.
9. Alcaraz, p. 49.
10. Ibid., p. 50.
11. Resaca de Guerrero. Alcaraz, p. 50n.
12. Taylor to TAG, May 9, 12, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 296, 297; Meade, May 15, p. 83.
13. Dobie, pp. 119, 120.
1. Wilcox, pp. 45–47.
2. Upton., p. 201.
3. Exec. Doc. No. 196, p. 6, quoted in Upton, p. 202.
4. Report of the secretary of war, December 5, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 4, p. 47.
5. Crittenden, vol. 1, pp. 241–42.
6. Report of the secretary of war, Exec. Doc. No. 4, p. 47.
7. Seward, letter, January 4, 1846, p. 771.
8. William Henry Harrison to Crittenden, November 7, 1839. Crittenden, vol. 1, p. 113.
9. Crittenden to Clay, July 2, 1844. Crittenden, vol. 1, p. 185.
10. Sellers, p. 312.
11. Polk, Diary, May 13, 1846, p. 90.
12. Ibid, pp. 90–92.
13. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 774.
14. Polk, Diary, May 14, 1846, pp. 93–94.
15. Ibid, May 19, 1846, p. 96.
16. Scott to R. P. Letcher, June 5, 1846. Crittenden vol. 1, 245–47.
17. Scott to Marcy, May 21, 1845, Congressional Globe Appendix, p. 650.
18. Scott to Archer, February 6, 1846, copy, Polk Papers.
19. Polk, Diary, May 21, 1846, p. 99.
20. Ibid, May 23, 1846, p. 103.
21. Ibid, May 25, 1846, p. 651.
22. Ibid, p. 652. Scott to Marcy, May 25, 1846.
23. Congressional Globe, pp. 903–4.
24. Ibid, p. 904.
25. Ibid, pp. 1025–26.
1. Grant, Memoirs, vol. 1, p. 92.
2. Taylor to TAG, May 18, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 298.
3. Ibid, p. 297.
4. Ibid, pp. 297–98, and Taylor to Wood, May 19, 1846, p. 3. These documents are consistent. However, each contains some facts absent in the other.
5. March to Taylor, July 6, 1845.
6. Order No. 65, Matamoros, May 23, 1846. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 490.
7. Taylor, Order No. 62, Headquarters, Army of Occupation, Camp Near Fort Brown, Texas, May 17, 1846. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 489.
8. Taylor to TAG, Matamoros, May 20, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 299.
9. By the act of February 28, 1795.
10. Marcy to Taylor, May 28, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 281–82.
11. Webb, pp. 8, 9.
12. Reid, p. 26.
13. Ibid., pp. 41–42.
14. Taylor to Wood, September 3, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 6.
15. Marcy to Taylor, June 8, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 324.
16. Marcy to Kearny, June 3, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 153.
17. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 267.
18. Marcy to Kearny, June 3, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 154.
19. Taylor to TAG, July 2, 1846. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 331.
20. Ibid., May 21, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 300.
21. Reid, pp. 45, 46.
22. Ibid., pp. 46–47.
23. Taylor to Wood, July 25, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 30.
24. Ibid., August 11, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 31, 39–41.
25. Giddings, pp. 28–31.
26. Ibid., pp. 39, 40.
27. Ibid., p. 49.
28. Ibid., pp. 63–65.
29. Ibid., pp. 70–71.
30. Ibid., pp. 71–72.
31. Ibid., pp. 74–75.
32. Ibid., pp. 79–81.
33. Ibid., pp. 83–84.
34. Nichols, p. 128.
35. Taylor to Wood, August 23, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 45–46.
36. Pillow to Mary Pillow, August 16, 1846. Stonesifer, p. 55.
37. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 418.
1. Alcaraz, pp. 69–71.
2. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 214–15.
3. Ibid., pp. 216–17.
4. Conner to Bancroft, August 16, 1846. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 776.
5. Calcott, p. 240.
6. See Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 777–86, for the full text.
7. Niles Register, September 26, 1846, p. 49.
1. Kenly, pp. 76–77.
2. Ibid, p. 81.
3. Ibid, p. 83.
4. Giddings, p. 112.
5. Ibid, p. 113.
6. Ibid, pp. 114–15.
7. William Henry, pp. 173–75.
8. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 230.
9. Alcaraz, p. 68.
10. Taylor to Wood, Cerralvo, September 10, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 54.
11. William Henry, September 11, 1846, p. 179.
12. Meade, September 17, 1846, pp. 129–30.
13. Ibid, pp. 91–92.
14. Ibid, p. 92.
15. Ibid, pp. 92–93.
16. William Henry, September 17, 1846, p. 187.
17. Giddings, p. 128.
18. Kenly, pp. 94–95; William Henry, p. 190.
19. Kenly, pp. 93–94.
1. Taylor to TAG, Monterey, October 9, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 83; Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 239; Wilcox, p. 91.
2. Kenly, p. 98.
3. Bill, p. 129.
4. Taylor to TAG, October 9, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 83. “Report.” Reid, p. 152.
5. Meade, letter, September 27, 1846, p. 133.
6. William Henry, p. 193.
7. Reid, p. 157.
8. Taylor report to TAG, October 9, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 83.
9. Worth report, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 103.
10. William Henry, p. 193.
11. Worth report, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 103–4.
12. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 244–45.
13. Reid, p. 163.
14. Ibid., p. 165.
15. Kenly, pp. 105–6.
16. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 249.
17. Giddings, p. 161.
18. Kenly, p. 107.
19. Giddings, p. 164.
20. William Henry, pp. 194–95.
21. Ibid., p. 195.
22. Alcaraz, p. 73.
23. Ibid., pp. 252–53; Kenly, p. 111; Giddings, p. 167.
24. Worth report, Exec. Doc. No. 4, p. 105.
25. Ibid., pp. 104–5.
26. Nichols, p. 154.
27. Taylor report, October 9, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 4.
28. Ibid.
29. Worth report, September 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 4, p. 105.
1. Reid, p. 200.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Giddings, p. 204.
5. Taylor to Wood, October 12, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 60.
6. William Henry, p. 212.
7. Ripley, vol. 1, p. 237. See also Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 348–49.
8. Ibid., p. 240.
9. The principal source is Ripley, pp. 241–43. See also Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 349–50.
10. Kenly, pp. 131.
11. Ibid., pp. 131–32.
12. Ibid., p. 132.
13. William Henry, pp. 217–18.
14. Alcaraz, pp. 79–80.
15. Ibid., p. 80.
16. Taylor to Wood, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 60
17. Polk, Diary, October 12, 1846, p. 156.
18. Ibid.
19. Marcy to Taylor, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 355, 356.
20. Meade, pp. 138–39.
21. David to National Union, dated January 2, 1847, quoted in Reid, pp. 205–6.
1. Ripley, vol. 1, p. 363.
2. Alcaraz, pp. 83–84.
3. Ibid, pp. 88–89.
4. See Calcott, table, p. 249n.
5. Alcaraz, p. 92.
6. Ibid, pp. 86–87.
7. William Henry, pp. 231, 234.
8. Polk, Diary, May 28, 1846, p. 106.
9. Jones to Wool, June 11, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 328.
10. Chamberlain, pp. 273–74.
11. Taylor to TAG, October 15, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 351–54; Ripley, vol. 1, p. 313.
12. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 279–80.
13. Ibid, pp. 281–82.
14. Scott to Taylor, September 26, 1846, in Crittenden, vol. 2, p. 257.
15. Taylor, Letters, November 10, 1846, pp. 66–67.
16. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 373.
17. McCormac, p. 560; Benton, vol. 2, p. 693.
18. Elbert Smith, p. 216; Benton, vol. 2, p. 693.
19. Polk, Diary, November 10, 1846, p. 163.
20. Elbert Smith, p. 216.
21. Scott to Marcy, September 12, 1846, in Crittenden, vol. 1, p. 250.
22. Marcy to Scott, September 14, 1846, in Crittenden, vol. 1, p. 250.
23. Polk, Diary, November 12, 1846, p. 166.
24. Ibid, November 18, 1846, pp. 169–70.
25. Ibid, November 19, 1846, pp. 170–71.
1. Taylor to TAG, July 2, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 331.
2. Ibid, October 15, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 352.
3. Ibid., pp. 352–53.
4. Marcy to Taylor, October 22, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 364.
5. Ibid., p. 265.
6. William Henry, p. 245.
7. Ibid., pp. 245–46.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Polk, Diary, November 21, 1846, p. 174.
11. Scott to Taylor, New York, November 25, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 373–74.
12. Ibid.
13. Taylor to Crittenden, January 26, 1847, in Crittenden, vol. 1, p. 272.
14. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 358.
15. Taylor to TAG, December 22, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 385.
16. Taylor to Scott, December 26, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 848.
17. Taylor to TAG, January 7, 1847. Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 387–88.
18. Scott to Butler, January 3, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 852.
19. Scott to Taylor, January 3, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 849–50.
20. Ripley, vol. 1, p. 345; West Point Register, 1980, p. 238.
21. Taylor to Scott, January 15, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 863.
22. Scott to Taylor, January 26, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 864.
23. Taylor to TAG, January 26, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1159–60.
24. Ibid., February 7, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1162–63.
25. Scott to Marcy, February 4, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 876.
26. Alcaraz, pp. 114–45; Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 380.
27. Alcaraz, p. 120.
28. Crittenden to Taylor, undated, in Crittenden, vol. 1, p. 280.
29. Ibid., p. 279.
1. Chamberlain, p. 106.
2. Ibid., pp. 106–9.
3. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 382.
4. Alcaraz, p. 122.
5. Taylor to TAG, March 6, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 142.
6. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 98.
7. Ibid.
8. Taylor to TAG, March 6, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 134.
9. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 388–89; Wilcox, p. 217.
10. Wilcox, pp. 221–23.
11. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 391; Ripley, vol. 1, p. 413; Taylor’s report, March 6, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, pp. 133–35.
12. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 391–93.
13. Ibid, p. 396.
14. Ibid, p. 398.
15. Taylor to TAG, March 1, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 99.
1. De Voto, p. 115.
2. Ibid, p. 13.
3. Ibid, p. 6.
4. Ibid, p. 17.
5. Rives, pp. 106–7.
6. Ibid, pp. 108–9.
7. Lavender, pp. 57, 62, 117.
8. Ibid, p. 106.
9. Ibid, p. 107.
10. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 286.
11. Lavender, p. 204.
12. Rives, vol. I, pp. 480–484. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 285–86.
13. DeVoto, p. 20.
14. Ibid, p. 321.
15. Hutchinson, pp. 56, 57, 58, 67.
16. Colton, p. 14.
17. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 320.
18. Lewis, Sutter’s Fort, p. 117.
19. Ibid, p. 122.
20. Frémont’s report, 1843–44, in Goetzmann, p. 98.
21. Harlow, p. 14.
22. See “California in 1846: A Report to the U.S. Government,” reprinted from The Pacific Monthly, December 1863, in Lewis, California in 1846, (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934); Colton, p. 17.
23. Lewis, The United States Conquest of California, p. ix.
24. Hutchinson, p. 99.
25. Larkin to Leidesdorff, April 23, 1846, in Hawgood, p. 55.
1. Goetzmann, pp. 112–13.
2. Turner, p. 66.
3. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 288–89.
4. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 168. See also Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 172–75, and account of William H. Emory, Exec. Doc. No. 7, p. 33.
5. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 291.
6. Turner, pp. 71–72; Ripley, vol. 1, p. 284.
7. Turner, p. 72.
8. Ibid., pp. 73–4.
9. Polk, Diary, October 2, 1846, p. 153.
10. Goetzmann, p. 68.
11. Gillespie and the Conquest of California,” California Historical Society Quarterly, Spring 1938, pp. 123–30.
12. Ibid., Gillespie to Bancroft, April 18, 1846, Monterey, p. 136.
13. Lewis, Sutter’s Fort, pp. 120–22.
14. “Letter from the Farthest West,” June 10, 1846, quoted in Lewis, The United States Conquest of California, p. 25.
15. Ibid., June 24, 1846, quoted in Lewis, The United States Conquest of California, pp. 31–32. See also Nevin, pp. 99, 104.
16. Nevin, p. 105.
17. Lewis, Sutter’s Fort, p. 125.
18. Larkin to Leidesdorff, July 5, 1846, in Hawgood, pp. 82–83.
19. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 334.
20. Ibid., p. 335.
21. Colton, p. 15.
22. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 336.
23. Colton, p. 20.
24. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
1. Nevin, p. 115; Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 340.
2. Goetzmann, p. 47.
3. Griffin, p. 20.
4. Goetzmann, p. 134.
5. Griffin, pp. 25–26.
6. Emory, pp. 94–95.
7. Ibid, p. 96.
8. Turner, p. 123; Emory, maps, pp. 25 and 35.
9. Emory, p. 108. DeVoto, 357.
10. Kearny to TAG, December 13, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 515.
11. Emory, p. 109.
12. Ibid, pp. 109–10.
13. Kearny to TAG, December 13, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 516.
14. Emory, p. 111.
15. Ibid.
16. DeVoto, p. 358.
17. Emory, p. 112.
18. Griffin, p. 53.
19. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. I, p. 343.
20. Griffin, p. 67; Kearny to TAG January 12, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 517.
21. Emory, p. 119.
22. Ibid, pp. 120–21.
23. Kearny to TAG, January 12, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 517.
24. Emory, p. 121.
25. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 345.
26. Griffin, p. 65.
27. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, p. 345.
28. Griffin, p. 660.
29. DeVoto, p. 459; Bauer, p. 196. Kearny forbade the duel.
1. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 299–302.
2. McNierney, p. 4.
3. Bent to Buchanan, December 26, 1846, in McNierney, pp. 7–8.
4. Unpublished manuscript of Teresina Bent Scheurich, Bent’s daughter, a witness.
5. Estergreen, p. 21.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., p. 524, with sketch map facing.
8. McNierney, p. 5; Estergreen, p. 23.
1. Nelson McClanahan to John McClanahan, June 19, 1847, McClanahan-Taylor papers, Southern Historical Collection, North Carolina. Quoted in Smith and Judah, p. 32.
2. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 303.
3. Ruxton, George F., Adventures in Mexico and the Rock Mountains (London: John Murray, 1847), quoted in Smith and Judah, pp. 296–97.
4. William H. Richardson, Journal of William H. Richardson, a Private in Col Doniphan’s Command, (Baltimore: J. Robinson, 1847), in Smith and Judah, p. 137.
5. Ibid., p. 501.
6. Susan S. Magoffin, Down the Santa Fe Trail, 1846–47, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926), quoted in Smith and Judah, p. 139.
7. Doniphan to Wool, March 20, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1128–29.
8. Taylor to TAG, April 4, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 1127.
9. Mora to Santa Anna, April 13, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 1088.
10. Dufour, p. 185.
1. Scott to Marcy, March 12, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 216.
2. Ibid., October 27, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 59, pp. 54–55.
3. Ibid., pp. 58–59.
4. Scott to Marcy, November 16, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 59, pp. 59–60.
5. Ibid., November 21, 1846, Exec. Doc. No. 59, p. 60.
6. Conner to Scott, January 18, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 892.
7. Elliot, p. 444. The informant was Alexander Barrow.
8. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 18.
9. Temple, pp. 63–64.
10. Semmes, p. 125.
11. Meade, vol. 1, p. 187.
12. Ibid. See also map in Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 24.
13. Semmes, p. 129.
14. Ibid., pp. 129–30.
15. Colonel J. G. Totten, Chief Engineers of the Army.
16. Semmes, p. 132.
17. P.S.P. Conner, The Home Squadron Under Commodore Conner in the War with Mexico, p. 46.
18. Semmes, p. 136.
19. Alcaraz, p. 184.
20. Exec. Doc. No. 1, pp. 230–31.
1. Scott, GO No. 87, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 914.
2. Hitchcock, p. 250.
3. Freeman, pp. 235–35; Elliott, pp. 461–62.
4. Quitman to H. L. Scott, April 7, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 917–18.
5. Elliott, p. 462; Scott to Jesup, March 19, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 913.
6. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, pp. 3–14.
7. Ibid, p. 114; Calcott, pp. 255–56.
8. Calcott, pp. 256–57.
9. Proclamation to the public, Mexico City, March 31, 1847. Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 260.
10. Alcaraz, p. 198; Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 40.
11. West Point Atlas, map 15 C. Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 264.
12. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 45.
13. Ballantine, p. 171.
14. Ibid, pp. 171–72.
15. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, 41–42.
16. Ballantine, p. 174.
17. Ibid, pp. 174, 175.
18. Ibid, pp. 175–76.
19. Ibid, pp. 180–182.
20. Scott, GO No. 111, April 17, 1847. Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 258.
21. Ibid, p. 59.
22. Scott to Marcy, April 23, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 262.
23. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 54.
24. Alcaraz, pp. 209–11.
25. Scott to Marcy, April 19, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 257.
26. Hitchcock, p. 251.
27. Semmes, p. 182; McClellan, p. 83.
28. McClellan, p. 87.
29. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 55.
30. Ibid.
31. Hitchcock to Scott, April 24, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1089–90. See also Hitchcock, p. 251.
32. Alcaraz, p. 214.
1. Congressional Globe Appendix, p. 1217.
2. Polk, Diary, p. 138.
3. Ibid., p. 159.
4. Boston Atlas, May 16, 1847, quoted in Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 280.
5. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 128–29.
6. Boston Atlas, December 31, 1846, quoted in Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 270.
7. The Chief Executive: Inaugural Addresses, p. 687.
8. Ibid., p. 666.
9. Ibid., pp. 690–688.
10. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 74.
11. Ibid., p. 75.
12. Polk, Diary, February 8, 1847, p. 195; February 10, 1847, p. 196.
13. Ibid., April 10, 1847, p. 211.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., pp. 212–14.
1. Alcaraz, pp. 214–15.
2. Ibid., pp. 215–19, 221.
3. Ballantine, p. 191.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., pp. 192, 200.
6. Ibid., p. 197; Nevin, p. 150; Bauer, p. 268.
7. Kirby Smith, pp. 137–38.
8. Scott to Taylor, April 24, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 948.
9. Ibid.
10. Tennery, pp. 86, 92.
11. Ibid, p. 88.
12. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 64, gives 7113.
13. Scott to Worth, May 6, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 957, 958.
14. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, pp. 65, 66.
15. Worth to Scott, May 15, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 994–95.
16. Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 973, 974.
17. Worth to Scott, May 19, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 967.
18. Scott to Marcy, June 4, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 993.
19. Scott, p. 466n.
20. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 128.
21. Scott to Trist, May 7, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 959–60.
22. Marcy to Scott, May 31, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 961.
23. Scott to Trist, May 29, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 996.
24. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 129.
25. Scott to Marcy, June 4, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 994.
1. Bill, p. 245.
2. Exec. Doc. No. 60.
3. Elliott, pp. 486–87.
4. Hitchcock. See also Semmes, p. 275.
5. Ripley, vol. 2, p. 166.
6. Ibid, See also Bill, p. 259.
7. Trist Papers, quoted in Elliott, p. 491.
8. Trist to Buchanan, July 23, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 831.
9. Ripley, vol. 2, p. 152.
10. Ibid, p. 153.
11. Elliott, pp. 495–96.
12. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 132; Ripley, vol. 2, p. 154; Hitchcock, p. 267.
13. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 76.
14. Ibid, p. 213.
15. Alcaraz, p. 238.
16. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 87.
17. Ibid, p. 88.
18. Ibid.
19. Alcaraz, pp. 247–51.
20. Ballantine, pp. 236–37.
1. Testimony at court-martial of Gideon Pillow, January 23, 1848, in Exec. Document No. 65, p. 523.
2. Lee to Mrs. Totten, August 22, 1847. Exhibit in Pillow court-martial, Exec. Doc. No. 65, pp. 461–62.
3. Dufour, p. 239.
4. Lee to Mason, August 14, 1847, quoted in Ripley, vol. 2, Appendix 1.
5. Duncan’s report, August 14, 1847, in Ripley, vol. 2, Appendix 2.
6. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, pp. 97–98.
7. Alcaraz, p. 256.
8. Dufour, p. 241.
9. Scott report, August 19, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 304.
10. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 88.
11. Letter written by a member of the Mexican Congress, August 21, 1847. Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 417.
12. Alcaraz, p. 270.
13. Ibid., pp. 270–72.
14. Freeman, vol. 1, p. 256.
15. Ibid., p. 258.
16. Riley testimony at Pillow court-martial, Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 182.
17. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 101.
18. Riley testimony at Pillow court-martial, Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 147.
19. Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 332.
20. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 106.
21. Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 332.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid., pp. 99–100; Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, pp. 104, 105.
24. Freeman, vol. 1, pp. 263–64.
25. Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 101.
26. Alcaraz, p. 279.
27. Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 102.
28. Scott report, August 28, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, pp. 308–9.
29. Ibid., p. 309.
30. Worth report, August 23, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, pp. 316–18.
31. Scott report, August 28, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 311.
32. Ibid, pp. 313, 314.
1. Alcaraz, p. 301.
2. Ibid.
3. Scott report, August 28, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 314.
4. Exec. Doc. No. 52, p. 308.
5. Scott, GO No. 262, Exec. Doc. No. 1, pp. 357–58.
6. Kirby Smith, p. 208.
7. Hitchcock, pp. 287–89; Alcaraz, p. 313. See also Scott report, September 11, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 355.
8. Dufour, p. 259; Kirby Smith, p. 216. See also Hitchcock, p. 293.
9. Scott to Santa Anna, September 6, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 359.
10. Steele, p. 115.
11. Ibid, p. 116.
12. Scott report, September 11, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 355.
13. Worth report, September 10, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 362.
14. Steele, p. 116.
15. Worth report, September 10, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 363.
16. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, pp. 143–44.
17. Worth report, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 364; Steele, pp. 116–17.
18. Freeman, vol. I, p. 275.
19. Major John Smith’s report, September 26, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 427.
20. Scott report, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 376; Steele, p. 117.
21. Scott report, Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 377; Ripley, vol. 2, p. 402.
22. Alcaraz, pp. 359–60.
23. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, pp. 153–54.
24. Scott report, September 18, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 1, pp. 277–78. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 153.
25. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 156.
26. Ibid, p. 157.
27. Ripley, vol. 2, pp. 355–56.
1. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, pp. 166–67; Alcaraz, pp. 375–80.
2. Exec. Doc. No. 1, p. 386.
3. Alcaraz, pp. 422–23.
4. Ripley, vol. 2, pp. 449–504.
5. Ibid., p. 504.
6. Ibid., pp. 505–6.
7. Alcaraz, p. 403.
8. Scott to Marcy, December 14, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 1039.
9. Ibid., January 6, 1848, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1061–62.
10. Ripley, vol. 2, pp. 560–61.
11. GO No. 376, December 15, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 1050.
12. Ripley, vol. 2, p. 569.
13. Ibid., pp. 570–71.
14. Alcaraz, p. 416.
15. Scott, vol. 2, p. 416.
16. Exec. Doc. No. 65.
17. Ibid.
18. Scott to Pillow, October 3, 1847; Pillow to Scott, October 3, 1847; Scott to Pillow, October 4, 1847. Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1018–20.
19. New Orleans Delta, September 10, 1847, reprinted in Exec. Doc. No. 65, pp. 385–89.
20. Elliott, p. 568.
21. Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 454–55.
22. Scott, GO No. 49, November 12, 1847. Exec. Doc. No. 65, p. 455.
23. Worth to Scott, November 14, 1847, in Elliot, p. 571.
24. Elliot.
25. Manual to Scott, Scott to Manual, November 5, 1847, through December 23, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1054–57.
26. Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 1063.
27. Hitchcock, p. 310.
1. Hitchcock, p. 267.
2. Marcy to Scott, October 6, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1007–8.
3. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, pp. 234–35.
4. Ibid., p. 238.
5. GO No. 376, December 15, 1847, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 1050. Scott to Marcy, January 6, 1848, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 1062.
6. Hitchcock, p. 313.
7. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 240.
8. Hitchcock, pp. 313–15.
9. Trist to Scott, January 28, 1848, in McCormac, p. 538.
10. Marcy to Scott, January 13, 1848, Exec. Doc. No. 60, p. 1044.
11. Exec. Doc. No. 60, pp. 1218–27.
12. Justin Smith, The War with Mexico, vol. 2, p. 188.
13. William D. Wilkins to his father, April 22, 1848. Quoted in Smith and Judah, p. 440.
14. Scott, vol. 2, pp. 581–82.
15. McCormac, pp. 544–45.
16. Trist to Buchanan, January 25, 1848, Exec. Doc. No. 52, p. 290. See also McCormac, p. 544.
17. McCormac, p. 541.
18. Polk, Diary, February 28, 1848, pp. 312–13. More detail in McCormac, p. 546.
19. Exec. Doc. No. 52, quoted in McCormac, p. 548.
20. Dufour, p. 279.
1. Bill, p. 64.
2. Scott, vol. 2, pp. 586–88.
3. DeVoto, p. 464.
4. Ibid.
5. Goetzman, p. 297; DeVoto, p. 467.