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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 2: birth.-career as officer of Engineers, United States army. (search)
cially famous after winning the battle of Okeechobee in the Seminole War. Promoted to be a brigadier general in 1837, three years thereafter he was assigned to the command of the Southern Division of the Western Department. He was in place, therefore, to defend Texas against the Mexicans, to insist on the Rio Grande boundary line, and to prevent Mexican authority from being extended to the River Nueces, which was claimed as the proper line. He was the right man in the right place, and when Arista, the Mexican general, crossed the Rio Grande with six thousand men, near Fort Brown, Taylor, being in the vicinity, promptly attacked with two thousand men and defeated him, assumed the offensive, crossed the Rio Grande, and war with Mexico became an accomplished fact. Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Matamoras, Monterey, and Buena Vista are the stars in the military crown on the brow of Old rough and ready, as he was called. Calm, silent. stern, possessed of military genius, this soldier
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 1: the Ante-bellum life of the author. (search)
intment was not satisfactory on the border, and General Arista was assigned. There was discord over there bet, to accept pay, and were held as the guests of Generals Arista and Ampudia. On the 1st of May our tents werstood his business. He had been informed that General Arista, with his movable forces, had marched to Ranchoy some accident provision was not made complete for Arista to make prompt crossing of the river, and that gavesed of our move by General Mejia, at Matamoras, General Arista was thrown into doubt as to whether our move waing, however, that Taylor had gone to Point Isabel, Arista crossed the river and put his line athwart our retuhaps some solemn thoughts, kept us on the qui vive. Arista's army was known to be in line of battle only a fewaring through the wood. A reconnoissance found General Arista's army on the south bank of a stream, Resaca de feet deep. The position was so strong that General Arista thought it would not be attacked. He left Gene
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 21: Mr. Davis's first session in Congress. (search)
but the Secretary of War countermanded them, except as to such as had already joined. General Taylor, after making a depot at Point Isabel, advanced to the bank of the Rio Grande, opposite Matamoras, and there threw up an intrenchment, mounted field-guns, and made general provision for the defence of the place-Fort Brown. Leaving a garrison to hold it, he marched, with an aggregate force of 2,288, to obtain the necessary additional supplies from Point Isabel, about three miles distant. General Arista, the new Mexican commander, availing himself of the opportunity, crossed the river with an estimated force of 6,000 regular troops, ten pieces of artillery, and a considerable amount of auxiliaries. In the afternoon of the second day's march from Point Isabel, these were reported by General Taylor's cavalry to occupy the road in his front. He halted at a water-hole to allow the command to rest, and for the needful disposition for battle. In the evening a request was made that a counci
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., Xiv. The Wilmot Proviso. (search)
n throwing up batteries on their side. These being completed, Ampudia (April 12th) addressed Gen. Taylor, requiring him to return to the Nueces forthwith, there to remain while our Governments are regulating the pending question relative to Texas; with a warning that his refusal would be regarded by Mexico as a declaration of war. Gen. Taylor courteously replied that he was acting under instructions that were incompatible with the Mexican's requirement. Ampudia was soon after superseded by Arista, who, early in May, crossed the Rio Grande at the head of 6,000 men, and, on the 8th, attacked Gen. Taylor's 2,300 at Palo Alto, and was badly defeated. Retreating to a strong position at Resaca de la Palma, a few miles distant, he was there attacked next day by Gen. Taylor, who routed his forces, after a sharp conflict, and drove them in disorder across the river. The Mexican loss in these two affairs was 1,000 men, with eight guns, and a large amount of baggage. The undisturbed possessi
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., Analytical Index. (search)
13. Anderson, Richard C., of Ky., appointed to attend the Panama Congress, 268-9. Andrew, Gov. John A., of Mass., a delegate to the Chicago Convention, 321; his correspondence with Mayor Brown, of Baltimore, 465-6. Andrews, T. A., of Phila., letter refusing the use of his hall to George W. Curtis, 367. Annapolis, Md., landing of Gen. Butler at, 469. Anthony, Henry B., of R. I., his speech on the crisis, 381-2; allusion to, 404. Archy, a fugitive slave in California, 218. Arista, Gen., defeated at Palo Alto, 187. Arkansas, legislative enslavement of free negroes in, 73; withdraws from the Democratic National Convention, 315; 341; secession of, and vote thereon, 348; population in 1860, 351; progress of secession in; Convention votes not to secede, 486; Ordinance of secession passed; the nature of her tenure to her soil; action of the conservatives, 487; seizure of Fort Smith, 488; testimony of Gen. Gantt in regard to Union sentiment in, 515. Arkansas Territory
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
the other side of the Rio Grande, where he saw Arista, the Mexican general who commands on that fron Ampudia had been superseded in command by General Arista, and that orders were said to be given notprobably in disgust at being superseded. This Arista is one of the most powerful men in the Norther same kind has since been given, to prove that Arista is to command, but as to the precise period ofobject was and is peace; he had hoped from General Arista's high character that, on his arrival, somounded men brought in, we ascertained that General Arista, who commanded in person, was unable to ke that the soldiers were so exasperated against Arista for their defeat, accusing him of selling themuses in all parts of the town. The people say Arista and his army are completely used up, and thathants in Cincinnati. The last accounts from Arista are that he has halted about a hundred miles fured with the portfolio of his Excellency, General Arista, and was doubtless designed to bear the ne[24 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
I, 76. Ames, Adelbert, II, 49, 51, 65, 92, 99. Ampudia, Gen., I, 50, 54, 56, 57, 60, 62, 66, 70-72, 97, 99, 125, 137-139, 141, 142, 144, 147. Anderson, Joseph R., I, 294, 296. Anderson, Richard H., II, 26, 53, 69, 75, 81, 84, 88, 108. Andrewses, I, 9. Anthony, Mr., II, 253, 257. Antietam, battle of, Sept. 17, 1862, I, 310-312, 315, 317; II, 314. Appomattox C. H., April 9, 1865, II, 270. Archer, Jas. J., I, 294; II, 32, 46, 47, 59. Arden, Thomas B., I, 12. Arista, Gen., I, 33, 57, 60, 61, 65, 73, 80, 85, 88, 89, 93, 95, 97, 102, 105, 118, 119, 130. Armistead, Lewis A., I, 196; II, 360. Atocha, Señor, I, 185, 190. Atwell, Lieut., II, 99. Augur, C. C., II, 192, 211, 212, 216. Averill, W. W., I, 316, 361. Avery, Isaac E., II, 50, 92, 93. Ayres, Romeyn B., II, 64, 83, 86, 100. B Bache, Alexander D., I, 211. Bache, Hartman, I, 17, 30, 41, 53, 81, 86, 141, 164, 200, 202-204, 207, 210, 356; II, 164, 166, 302. Bache, Markoe, I,
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), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
urprised by a large Mexican force and compelled to surrender, after the loss of sixteen men out of their force of sixty-three. President Paredes now appointed General Arista to command the Mexican forces on the frontier. General Arista crossed the Rio Grande with an army of 8,000 men and moved to attack General Taylor. It is nGeneral Arista crossed the Rio Grande with an army of 8,000 men and moved to attack General Taylor. It is no part of our purpose to recount the events of the Mexican war. The Mexicans and the opponents of the administration in the United States, notwithstanding the fact that Mexico had declared the annexation of Texas to be an act of war, and that her minister had demanded his passports and that she had refused to entertain negotiatio General Taylor was the beginning of it. The first act of actual hostility was made by Mexico in the attack upon Captain Thornton, and this was followed up by General Arista in the movements against Point Isabel and the attack at Fort Brown and the efforts to intercept General Taylor's march to its relief at Palo Alto May 8th and
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the American army. (search)
g in a disaster. The line which connected their cantonments on the Rio Grande with their depots at Point Isabel, near the mouth of that river, ran along the left bank, in sight of the enemy's posts situated on the opposite bank. The Mexican general Arista determined to pierce it by a sudden attack. The Americans, warned in time by a fortunate chance, fell back upon their depots thus menaced. When they attempted afterward to go to extricate the little garrison that had been left in their cantonments, they found Arista barring their passage at Palo Alto (May 8, 1846). Although this general had so entirely lost all presence of mind that his countrymen accused him of treason, the Americans would have been compelled to beat a retreat before the superior number and position of the enemy, but for the steadfastness of their old battalions of regular troops. These did not allow themselves to be shaken by the impetuous charge of the Mexican lancers. At the risk of seeing their caissons bl