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Taylor, Zachary & William J. Worth & John E. Wool, & William O. Butler, Et Al : General Taylor and His Staff. Comprising Memoirs of Generals Taylor, Worth, Wool, and Butler: Colonels May, Cross, Clay, Hardin, Yell, Hays, and Other Distinguished Officers. Interspersed with Numerous Anecdotes of the Mexican War and Personal Adventures of the Officers

Grigg, Elliot & Co., Philadelphia, 1848

284, [8] pages, illustrations, maps, brown cloth with gilt decorations, some fraying to covers and foxing to pages, piece missing from one of the two rear blank endpapers, binding is still tight, text and illustrations are very good. Scarce. "Compiled from Public Documents and Private Correspondence with accurate portraits, and other beautiful illustrations." From the preface: "If the Hero of Buena Vista nobly commenced the present war with Mexico, the Hero of Chippewa has not less nobly completed the second Conquest of Mexico. General Scott and his splendid army have 'won golden opinions of all sorts of men.' They have displayed all the best qualities of commanders and soldiers. They have carried on sieges and captured cities which were considered impregnable, with a force apparently hardly adequate for a forlorn hope. They have fought pitched battles and won them, opposing fresh recruits to veteran troops. They have accomplished marches over routes before considered utterly impassible; captured fortresses bristling with cannon, by means of the rifle and bayonet; and planted the star-spangled banner upon the proud 'Halls of Montezuma.' General Taylor and his noble army having been instrumental in first developing these facts and this principle, during the present war, it becomes an interesting matter to follow out all their splendid actions in detail, and to learn the real characters of the actors themselves. The following series of lives has been compiled from authentic materials, with a view to satisfy the public curiosity on this important subject.", Good+ with no dust jacket

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