List of Maps ix
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
1. Taylor’s Corps of Observation 1
2. Taylor’s Army of Occupation at Corpus Christi 23
3. Encounters with “the enemy”: Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande 38
4. The Ambush: “Hostilities may now be considered as commenced” 54
5. Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, and Fort Brown 70
6. Occupation of Matamoros, Reynosa, Camargo, and Mier 90
7. March to Monterrey 112
8. Battle of Monterrey 127
9. Captain Robert E. Lee Joins General Wool’s March into Mexico 159
10. Taylor’s Changing Army and the Occupation of Saltillo 174
11. Battle of Buena Vista 195
12. Last Days of Taylor’s Army of Occupation 213
Appendix: Future Civil War Leaders in Taylor’s Army 229
Notes 237
Bibliography 297
Index 311
was Dean of Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Science at the Brooklyn Center of Long Island University and practiced law in New York State before her retirement in 2001. She is author of
Literature, Obscenity, and Law and coeditor, with Elmer Gertz, of
Henry Miller: Years of Trial and Triumph, 1962–1964, The Correspondence of Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz.
