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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 34 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 24 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 24 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 20 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 18 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 18 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 16 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 14 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Regular and volunteer officers. (search)
Regular and volunteer officers. The New York Herald remarks that "the Mexican war was comparatively a ridiculous little farce, while this is a tremendous tragedy. In war, the poor Mexicans are but little better than Indians; for in every encounter with our troops, regardless of numbers or position, they were invariably beaten. "In this war it is Greek against Greek, and great armies led by scientific officers, with all the modern improvements in arms and equipments, arrayed against each other. Hence, as we have seen, a civilian general, competent, with five or six hundred Americans, to win a glorious victory over two or three thousand feeble Mexicans, signally fails when required to lead twenty or thirty thousand Americans against an equal number of their rebellious brethren in charge of our educated soldiers. Thus our distinguished volunteer generals of the Mexican, war are reduced to their proper dimensions, and the subordinate regular officers of that war, such as Bre