Format: Paperback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9780813152424
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Illustrations: maps, illus
Description:
"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.