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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,404 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 200 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 188 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 184 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 174 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 166 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 164 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 132 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 100 0 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 100 0 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
y occupation of Texas, and during the war with Mexico participated in the battles of 1846 at Palo Alhe rank of major-general. When war began with Mexico he went to the front as lieutenant-colonel of earning promotion to colonel, and remained in Mexico a year after the close of the war, as militaryred to the command of the West sub-district of Mexico. He was also in command of the Texas cavalry iment of the second levy of volunteers sent to Mexico, but did not arrive at the scene of conflict iial duty in Europe. He went into the war with Mexico as chief of ordnance on the staff of General S the Second infantry he served in the war with Mexico, participating in the siege of Vera Cruz, the Molino del Rey, and the capture of the city of Mexico, particularly being distinguished and earning t, he was on the coast survey until ordered to Mexico, where he fought at Monterey in September. Tha and Porter, New York; served in the war with Mexico in 1847, and was assistant engineer connected
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
icate of qualification to command an English ship. He then went to Mexico as a colonist and settled on a ranch near Cordova. About the time rces. For thus taking part in a conflict with a friendly nation—as Mexico was then—he was cashiered by the United States, but was afterward rhaving preceded his service for the Confederacy by gallant deeds in Mexico in the army of Gen. Winfield Scott. For this first war he left Cha, Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and the capture of the city of Mexico. On his return to South Carolina he engaged in planting on James iom Ireland. The country, at the time of his birth, was at war with Mexico, so that in earliest childhood the tales of war and rumors of war fas educated at the Citadel academy, afterward traveled in Texas and Mexico for two years. Returning home in 1860, he with three brothers organe vessel was sold and the crew dismissed. Master Wilkinson went to Mexico then, and for some time served under Colonel Talcott, of Virginia,