An Immigrant Soldier in the Mexican WarTexas A&M University Press, 1995 - 117 psl. Frederick Zeh, a young German immigrant, had hardly arrived in the United States when he was caught up in the war fever that swept his new homeland. He joined the Mountain Howitzer and Rocket Company of the U.S. Army. His impressions of the siege of Veracruz, the long march to Mexico City, the bloody battles that occurred along the route, and the occupation of the capital provide a vivid and unusual account of the Mexican War from an enlisted man's point of view. Although Zeh held the lowly rank of "laborer" in the army, he was well-educated and an astute observer, and his story is both lively and well-written. Besides the horror of battles, he tells about relations between officers and enlisted men, military punishment, and the day-to-day life of the soldiers. Numerous anecdotes and personal stories enliven his narrative. He is unusually candid about abuses that occurred in the American army and toward Mexican civilians. His is also the first book-length account written by a German-American participant - a significant contribution, given that nearly half the regular army was made up of immigrant recruits. |
Turinys
From Philadelphia to Veracruz | 3 |
The Siege and Surrender of Veracruz | 12 |
March Inland and the Battle of Cerro Gordo | 24 |
Respite in the City of Jalapa | 36 |
To Puebla and the Valley of Mexico | 45 |
Battles of Contreras and Churubusco | 60 |
Molino del Rey Chapultepec and Mexico | 74 |
Epilogue | 85 |
Notes | 91 |
Bibliography | 105 |
Index | 111 |
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Populiarios ištraukos
xiv psl. - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil.
xiv psl. - As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor, the rights, and the interests of our country.
99 psl. - s campaign in Mexico ; from the rendezvous on the island of Lobos to the taking of the city ;. including an account of the siege of Puebla, with sketches of the country, and manners and customs of the inhabitants.
91 psl. - John SD Eisenhower, So Far from God: The US War with Mexico, 1846-1848 (New York: Random House, 1989); and David M.
91 psl. - Ralph W. Kirkham, The Mexican War Journal and Letters of Ralph W. Kirkham, ed. Robert Ryal Miller (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991), 19-20.
99 psl. - A. Brooke Caruso, The Mexican Spy Company: United States Covert Operations in Mexico, 1845-1848 (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1991), pp.
91 psl. - Cecil Robinson, ed., The View from Chapultepec: Mexican Writers on the Mexican-American War (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989), p.
75 psl. - ... one of them even fashioned a bunk of sorts in a big glass coffin. Saint Christopher was, in fact, the church's patron saint, and a colossal wax figure of this saint had been resting on a pillow inside the coffin. The blasphemer had tossed out Christopher — who did not protest — and taken the warm bed for himself.
12 psl. - Finally, at the end of March, the besieged garrison of thirtythree hundred soldiers, plus a thousand men stationed at the offshore fortress of San Juan de Ulua, surrendered.