James M. McCaffrey's Surrounded by Dangers of all Kinds: The Mexican War Letters PDF

By James M. McCaffrey

ISBN-10: 1574410342

ISBN-13: 9781574410341

Lieutenant Theodore Laidley, whose military occupation spanned 40 years till his retirement as a colonel in 1882, was once a tender officer throughout the Mexican struggle. Like such a lot of of his fellow infantrymen he wrote lengthy letters domestic describing new and strange points of interest and events.

Laidley landed at Veracruz at the Mexican coast in March 1847, and assisted cut back that very important port urban. He commanded a box battery at Cerro Gordo as normal Winfield Scott begun his march into the internal of Mexico. The younger lieutenant remained with the garrison at Puebla, the place his activities have been instrumental in denying that urban to Santa Anna in a month-long siege within the fall of 1847. Upon his arrival in Mexico urban and the victory there and resulting treaty negotiations, Laidley explored historic websites and the paths first laid via Cortez. On August 2, 1848, the army career of Mexico ended and Laidley, now a Brevet significant, again to the us. His letters domestic to his father in Virginia commence on August 23, 1945 (from Watervliet Arsenal, long island) and finish on might thirteen, 1848 (from Mexico City). They exhibit the horrors of the battlefield, his low opinion of volunteer squaddies, the jealousy over promotions in the officer corps, and persisted issues over his personal actual and non secular health.

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Is February 12, 1847 31 aware that his all depends upon this campaign and the delay as well as a thousand other things keeps him in a perfect fever. When he does start he will not stop till he has conquered or falls with all with him. It is Vera Cruz and the Presidency or death. When we sail from here it will be for Lobos, where all the troops rendezvous, and thence for Antón Lizardo where we will disembark under cover of the fire from the fleet and make our way for Vera Cruz. Santa Anna is expected there in full force as he has the most accurate and detailed account of our intentions.

Cordell Robinson, Origins of the Mexican War: A Documentary Source Book, 2 vols. : Documentary Publications, 1982), vol. 2, 149–50. 3 George G. Meade to his wife, May 5, 1846; quoted in George Gordon Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1913), vol. 1, 76. 2 January 19, 1847 27 4 The Mexican army entered the battle with 3,709 men and lost 102 killed, 129 wounded, and 26 missing. The American army began the day with 2,288 men and lost 5 killed, 48 wounded, and 2 missing.

To have accepted Slidell would mean a de facto reopening of full diplomatic intercourse with the United States—a step that Mexico was as yet unwilling to take. Nor were relations with the United States the only thing to cause anxiety for Mexico’s President José Joaquín de Herrera. Internal politics continued to be very volatile. General Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga, a political rival of Herrera’s, used the arrival of Slidell, and his presumed acceptance by the president, as a rallying cry to overthrow the government.

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