Selected Bibliography



BOOKS



Alcaraz, Ramon, et al. The Other Side: Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States. Translated from the Spanish and edited by Albert C. Ramsey. New York: John Wiley, 1850.
Barbour, Philip and Martha. The Journals of Major Philip Norbourne Barbour and His Wife Martha Isabella Hopkins Barbour. Edited by Rhoda Van Bibber Tanner Doubleday. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1936.
Bauer, K. Jack. The Mexican War, 18461848. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
———. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
Benton, Senator Thomas Hart. Thirty Years’ View; or A Histor y of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 1854.
Calhoun, John C. Correspondence of John C. Calhoun. Edited by J. Franklin Jameson. Vol. 2, Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1899. Washington: American Historical Association, 1900.
Chaffin, Tom. Fatal Glory: Narciso López and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Chamberlain, Samuel E. My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue. New York: Harper Brothers, 1956.
Coffman, Edward M. The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 17841898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Coleman, Mrs. Chapman. The Life of John J. Crittenden, with Selections from His Correspondence and Speeches. 2 vols. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1873.
Colton, Calvin. The Life and Times of Henry Clay. 2 vols. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1845.
Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 18461848. New York: Random House, 1989.
Eliot, Charles W. Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man. New York: Macmillan, 1937.
Fry, J. Reese. A Life of Zachary Taylor, Comprising a Narrative of Events Connected with His Professional Career. Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliot, 1848.
Giddings, Luther. Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexico in Eighteen Hundred Forty-six and Seven. New York: George P. Putnam, 1853.
Goodwin, Cardinal. The Establishment of State Government in California, 18461850. New York: Macmillan, 1914.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, vol. 1. New York: Charles A. Webster, 1885.
Hamilton, Holman. Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.
———. Zachary Taylor: Soldier of the Republic. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941.
Harlow, Neal. California Conquered. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. Fifty Years in Camp and Field. Edited by W. A. Croffut. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909.
Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. New York: Benchmark, 1970.
Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole War, 18351842. Rev. ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1985.
Meade, George G. The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General, United States Army. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913.
Nevins, Allan. The Ordeal of the Union, vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947.
Polk, James K. Polk: The Diary of a President, 18451849. Edited by Allan Nevins. London: Longmans Green, 1929.
Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 18481861. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
Ross, Ishbel. First Lady of the South: The Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.
Scott, Winfield. The Memoirs of Lieut-Gen Winfield Scott, LLD. 2 vols. New York: Sheldon, 1864.
Smith, Elbert B. The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988.
Smith, E. Kirby. To Mexico with Scott: Letters of Ephraim Kirby Smith to His Wife. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1917.
Smith, Justin H. The Annexation of Texas. New York: AMS Press, 1971. Reprint from the 1911 edition, New York.
———. The War with Mexico. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1963. Originally published 1919 by Macmillan.
Striner, Richard. Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Taylor, Zachary. Letters of Zachary Taylor from the Battlefields of the Mexican War. Rochester, N.Y.: William K. Bixby, 1908. Reprint, New York: Krause Reprint Company, 1970.
Upton, Brevet Major General Emory. The Militar y Policy of the United States. Fourth Impression. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917. First manuscript, 1881.
U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Executive Document No. 59. 30th Cong., 1st sess. Correspondence Between the Secretar y of War and General Scott. Washington, D.C., 1848.
U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Executive Document No. 60. 30th Cong., 1st sess. Messages of the President of the United States with the Correspondence, Therewith Communicated, Between the Secretary of War and Other Officers of the Government: The Mexican War. Washington, D.C., Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848.
Webb, Walter Prescott. The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War. Austin: Jenkins Garrett Press, 1975.


ARTICLES


Castel, Albert. “Zachary Taylor.” American History Illustrated 5, no. 3, (June 1970).


UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS


U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Executive Document No. 59, 31st Cong., 1st sess. Message to the President of the United States. The Report of T. Butler King, Esq., heretofore appointed bearer of despatches and special agent to California. March 27, 1850.
Wire, Richard Arden. “John M. Clayton and the Search for Order: A Study in Whig Politics and Diplomacy.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1971.