Monterrey Is Ours!: The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana, 1845-1847 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813152424)

Here we are on the banks of the Nueces in the grand camp of the army of occupation." So wrote Lt. Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana when in 1845, not many months before the outbreak of the Mexican War, he joined the white-tented encampment of General Zachary Taylor in Texas. And so he continued writing during the uncertain life of camp and campaign for the better part of the next two years. In these letters to his wife, published here for the first time, Dana provides a detailed, firsthand view o

Author: Robert H. Ferrell
ISBN-10: 0813152429
ISBN-13: 9780813152424
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d