Excerpt from Campaign in New Mexico: With Colonel Doniphan; With a Map of the Route, and a Table of the Distances Traversed The author cannot better introduce h

A soldier's personal account of the Mexican War, experienced as a member of the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, commanded by Col. Alexander Donip

In 1846-1847, a ragtag army of 800 American volunteers marched 3,500 miles across deserts and mountains, through Indian territory and into Mexico. There they ha