"Here we are on the banks of the Nueces in the grand camp of the
army of occupation." So wrote Lt. Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana
when in 1845, not many months before the outbreak of the Mexican
War, he joined the white-tented encampment of General Zachary
Taylor in Texas. And so he continued writing during the uncertain
life of camp and campaign for the better part of the next two
years. In these letters to his wife, published here for the first
time, Dana provides a detailed, firsthand view of the United
States' war with Mexico -- fighting off the Mexicans from within
Fort Brown during the initial attack; hearing the distant thunder
of artillery as Taylor's army marched to the rescue of the
beleaguered Seventh Infantry; occupying Matamoros; taking
Monterrey, street by street with the defenders firing from the
housetops. After Monterrey, Dana was at the siege of Veracruz and
on the march to Cerro Gordo. Badly wounded in the attack on
Telegraph Hill at Cerro Gordo, he was left on the field for dead,
but was rescued by a burial party a day and a half later. Following
the Mexican War, Dana went on to become a major general during the
Civil War and later to have an illustrious career as a railroad
executive. Nearly one hundred of his letters about the Mexican War
survived and are now in the archives at West Point. From them
Robert Ferrell has edited this vivid, eyewitness narrative.
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