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1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Colonel Samuel Ryan Curtis, engineer, lawyer, and graduate of West Point, arrived in Mexico in July of 1846 as commander of the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment to find a volatile and chaotic situation in occupied towns along the Rio Grande. American civilians of the lowest sort - men and women - mingled with Mexican townspeople, robbing, murdering, and raping. Neither civil nor military law made provisions for governing municipalities under such conditions. Nor was the U.S. military prepared for a struggle against Mexican guerrilla forces and desperate bandits. Colonel Curtis was a diary keeper, and this record of his experiences in Mexico gives a clear picture of his efforts to restore and maintain order under nearly impossible conditions: of death and suffering in his regiment from disease, not fighting, and of the tedium of army camp life. A reflective man as well as an educated one, Curtis was a keen observer. He documented social and economic circumstances, flora and fauna, and the weather, even as he chronicled political conditions and martial unrest. The resulting diary is a major contribution to studies of the Mexican War |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index |
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Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866 -- Diaries
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Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866 fast |
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United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1846-1847)
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United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1846-1847) fast |
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Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Personal narratives, American
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Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Campaigns -- Mexico.
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Soldiers -- Ohio -- Diaries
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Military campaigns
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Soldiers
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Mexico
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Ohio
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diaries.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Diaries
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Diaries.
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Personal narratives.
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Autobiographies.
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Journaux intimes.
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Récits personnels.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Chance, Joseph E., 1940-
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ISBN |
0585361185 |
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9780585361185 |
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