The Training Ground (40 page)

Perry, Oran.
Indiana in the Mexican War.
Indianapolis: Wm. B. Burford, 1908.

Pollard, Edward Alfred.
The Early Life, Campaigns and Public Services of Robert E. Lee.
New York: E. B. Treat, 1871.

Ramsey, Albert C.
The Other Side; or, Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States Written in Mexico.
New York: J. Wiley, 1850.

Reid, Samuel Chester.
Scouting Expeditions of the Texas Rangers.
Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber, 1848.

Remlap, L. T., ed.
The Life of General U. S. Grant.
Chicago: Fairbanks, Palmer, 1885.

Roberts, Wm. Hugh.
Mexican War Veterans: A Complete Roster of the Regular and Volunteer Troops in the War between the United States and Mexico, from 1846 to 1848.
Washington, D.C.: Brentano’s, 1887.

Sandburg, Carl.
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years.
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1954.

Sanger, Donald Bridgman, and Thomas Robson Hay.
James Longstreet, I: Soldier. II: Politician, Officeholder, and Writer.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1952.

Scott, Winfield.
Infantry Tactics; or, Rules for the Exercise and Manoeuvre of United States Infantry.
3 vols. New York: Harper and Bros., 1846.

———.
Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Scott.
Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, 1970.

———.
The Memoirs of Lieutenant General Winfield Scott.
2 vols. New York: Sheldon, 1864.

Scribner, Benjamin Franklin.
Camp Life of a Volunteer: A Campaign in Mexico; or, A Glimpse at Life in Camp by One Who Has Seen the Elephant.
Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliot, 1847.

Seitz, Don C.
The James Gordon Bennetts.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928.

Sides, Hampton.
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West.
New York: Doubleday, 2006.

Simpson, Brooks D.
Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822–1865.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Singletary, Otis A.
The Mexican War.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.

Smith, George Winston, and Charles Judah.
Chronicles of the Gringos: The U.S. Army in the Mexican War, 1846–1848.
Albuquerque: University of Mexico Press, 1968.

Smith, Gustavus Woodson.
Company “A” Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., 1846–1848, in the Mexican War.
Kent: Kent State University Press, 2001.

Smith, Jean Edward.
Grant.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Smith, Justin H.
The War with Mexico.
2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1919.

Smith, Kirby.
To Mexico with Scott: Letters of Captain E. Kirby Smith to His Wife.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1917.

Snow, William P.
Lee and His Generals.
New York: Richardson, 1867.

Tarr, David R., and Ann O’Connor.
Congress A to Z.
3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1999.

Taylor, Fitch W.
The Broad Pennant; or, A Cruise in the United States Flag Ship of the Gulf Squadron during the Mexican Difficulties.
New York: Leavitt, Trow, 1848.

Taylor, Zachary.
Letters from the Battlefields of the Mexican War.
New York: Kraus Reprint, 1970.

Thomas, Emory.
Robert E. Lee.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

Thomas, Hugh.
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan.
New York: Random House, 2003.

Traas, Adrian George.
From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: The U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846–1848.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army, 1993.

Windrow, Martin, and Gerry Embleton.
Military Dress of North America, 1665–1970.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973.

Wright, Robert K., and Morris J. MacGregor.
Soldier-Statesmen in the Constitution.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

O’Bright, Alan W., and Kristen R. Marloff.
Farm on the Gravois: Historic Structures Report. Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site.
Saint Louis, 1999.

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, and Combat Studies Institute.
Armed Diplomacy: Two Centuries of American Campaigning.
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2003.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Clark, Paul C., and Edward Mosely. “D-Day, Veracruz 1847, A Grand Design.”
Joint Forces Quarterly,
Winter 1995–96, 104–115.

Klafter, Craig Evan. “United States Involvement in the Falkland Islands Crisis of 1831–1833.”
Journal of the Early Republic
4, no. 4 (Winter 1984): 395–420.

O’Sullivan, John L. “The Great Nation of Futurity.”
United States Democratic Review
6, no. 23 (November 1839): 426–430.

Stauffer, Alvin P. “The Quartermaster’s Department and the Mexican War.”
Quartermaster Review,
May–June 1950.

Wilson, Herbert M. “Topography of Mexico.”
Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
29, no. 3 (1897): 249–60.

WEB SITES

http://www.archives.gov

http://www.army.mil/cmh

http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html

http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/history/chronology/jkpolk1845.htm

http://www.whitehouse.gov

ARCHIVES

Virginia Military Institute Archives

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Martin Dugard is the
New York Times
bestselling author of such nonfiction titles as
The Last Voyage of Columbus, Farther Than Any Man, Knockdown, Chasing Lance,
and
Into Africa.
He has written for
Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated,
and
GQ.
Dugard lives in Orange County, California, with his wife and three sons.