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A Gallant Little Army

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by Timothy D Johnson


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  Index

  Page numbers reflect those in print edition.

  Adee, Samuel, 244

  Adee, William, 244

  Alburtis, William, 27

  Aleman, Manuel, 220

  Alexander, Bevin, 98

  Alvarado, 24, 26, 49, 60, 63

  American Revolution, 268

  Amozoc
, 122–23

  Anaya, Pedro María, 105, 266

  Anderson, Robert, 22, 33, 36, 57, 97, 110, 111, 121, 126, 154, 159, 206, 255, 267

  Andrews, George, 218

  Antigua, 60

  Antigua River, 66

  Anton Lizardo, 20, 21

  Arizona, 113

  Armistead, Lewis A., 185, 337, 255

  armistice, 195, 198–202, 248, 269

  Armstrong, William, 208

  Arroyo, Miguel, 144

  attitudes, 6–7, 8, 246–47, 250, 254

  race, 4, 106, 124–25, 146, 254–55, 267, 321

  Aulick, John H., 48

  Austine, William, 135–36, 138, 146, 149, 159

  Ayotla, 154, 157–58

  Ayres, George W., 206

  Ayres, Romeyn B., 62, 264

  Ballentine, George, 152–53

  Bankhead, Charles, 126–27, 145, 148, 194

  Bankhead, James, 38–39, 40, 111

  Baranda, Manual, 135

  Barclay, Thomas, 100, 103, 132, 141, 208, 227

  Barnard, Moses, 22, 118, 152–53, 171–72, 178, 201, 207, 223

  Bates, A. J., 222

  Bauer, K. Jack, 6, 69, 93, 265, 298

  Baxter, Charles, 222

  Beach, Moses, 61, 120

  Beauregard, P. G. T., 25, 32–33, 111, 155–57, 210–13, 256, 270

  and Battle of Cerro Gordo, 70, 73–74, 76–77

  and battles around Mexico City, 160, 162, 167, 175, 177, 201, 216, 230–31, 237, 337–38

  Bee, Barnard, 87, 221, 233

  Belén Garita, 210, 215, 227–33, 237, 243, 256

  Benjamin, Calvin, 218, 232, 243

  Benton, Thomas Hart, 15–16, 18, 138

  Bill, Alfred Hoyt, 69

  Black Pass, 120, 140

  Bliss, W. L., 102, 105

  Bomfield, James V., 188

  Bonneville, Benjamin L., 185

  Bradford, Edmund, 131

  Bravo, Nicolás, 179–80, 183–84, 191, 214–15, 217, 219, 225, 228

  Brazos, 17, 18, 19

  bribery scheme, 143–44, 170, 259, 262, 265

  Brower, Charles B., 225

  Brown, Hachaliah, 238, 240, 242, 245

  Brydolf, Fabian, 175

  Buchanan, James, 14, 113–15, 126–27, 263

  Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 152, 185, 199

  Buell, Don Carlos, 187, 270

  Buena Vista, Battle of, 26, 35, 39, 45, 52, 61, 66, 103, 130, 175, 177, 246

  Burnside, Ambrose, 255

  Burwell, William T., 205–206, 208

  Butler, William O., 263–64

  Cadwalader, George, 138–44, 147, 164, 166–68, 172–73, 182, 184–85, 203, 207, 212, 219–20, 227

  California, 113

  Callender, Franklin, 163, 165

  Campbell, William B., 24, 53, 54, 69, 84, 91–92

  Canalizo, Valentín, 67, 72

  Cantey, James, 267

  Carleton, Guy, 165

  Casa Mata, 202–205, 207–208

  Casey, Silas, 218, 221

  Cathedral de San José, 248

  Catholic church, 34, 62, 135, 180, 243

  American attitudes toward, 4, 58–59, 110, 132–33

  Cerro Gordo, 1, 2, 7, 45, 68–72, 76, 108, 113, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 141, 145, 147, 170, 175, 178, 180, 183, 192, 195, 227–28, 243, 246, 270

  Battle of, 79–103, 110, 129, 136

  Casualties, 96–97, 100

  Cerro Gordo Pass, 68, 72, 77, 84, 97

  Chalco (lake), 153–57, 200, 260–61, 270

  Chalco (town), 154, 156

  Chambliss, William, P., 146

  Chancellorsville, Battle of, 170

  Chapultepec, 2, 197, 201–202, 205, 207, 210, 212–13, 215, 228–29, 232–33, 235, 256–57, 259

  Battle of, 7, 218–27, 242

  casualties, 239

  defenses of, 213–14, 217

  Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin, 47

  Cherokee removal, 306

  Childs, Thomas, 109, 120, 198, 248–50

  Chippewa, Battle of, 183

  Cholula, 131

  Churubusco, 179–81, 195, 197, 199, 208, 213, 225, 228, 243, 260, 270

  casualties at, 191–92

  fighting at, 182–90

  Ciudadela, 232–33, 238

  Civil War, 4, 5, 25, 51, 60, 81, 99, 168, 175, 185, 191–92, 220, 229, 264, 267–68, 270–71, 318, 328

  Claiborne, Thomas, 37, 78, 79, 80, 93

  Clark, Amasa, 318

  Clark, N. H., 4, 7, 8

  Clarke, Newman, S., 29, 183–85, 188, 191, 203, 222–23, 225

  Clausewitz, Carl von, 3, 270

  Collado Beach, 2, 10, 20, 25, 29, 44, 64

  Colorado, 113

  Congreve, William, 43

  Conner, David, 10, 20, 37, 60

  Contreras, 160–62, 176, 178, 185

  Cordilleras Pass, 151

  Cortez, Hernando, 64, 150, 152–53

  Coulter, Richard, 36, 100, 108, 208, 224, 256

  Coyoacán, 167, 179–80, 182, 186

  Crockett, Davy, 342

  Cuyler, John, 81

  Dana, Napoleon, 93

  Daniels, Joseph, 107

  Davis, George T., 56, 64, 95, 149, 196, 199, 228, 233, 235, 237, 243

  Dawson, Joseph G., 6

  Democratic Party, 12, 15–16, 19, 53, 129

  DePalo, William A., 6

  Derby, George H., 76, 80, 94, 99–100

  Devlin, John S., 254, 337

  Dimick, Justin, 172–73

  disease, 60, 107–108, 112, 122, 136, 137–38, 244–45

  yellow fever, 15, 20, 45, 61, 62, 68, 97, 106, 108, 112, 137

  Dodd, John, 110, 146

  Dominguez, Manuel, 130, 147, 153, 252

  Dorich, Nicholas, 65, 310

  Drum, Simon H., 203, 206, 215, 218, 230–32, 243

  Duke of Wellington, 140

  Dulany, William, 337

  Duncan, James, 157, 185, 188, 203, 207, 230, 257, 261–63, 265, 329

  Eisenhower, John S. D., 6

  Elderkin, James, 220

  El Encero, 66, 68, 96, 97

  El Peñon, 154–58, 229

  El Telégrafo, 1, 70, 72, 73–74, 77, 80–83, 85–86, 88, 92–94, 97, 100, 102, 111, 311, 314

  Ernst, Rudolph, 244

  Eurick, William, 2

  Ewell, Richard, 37, 85, 95, 100, 160, 190–91

  Ewell, Thomas, 37, 85, 86, 93–95, 100

  Fair Oaks, Battle of, 318

  Farías, Valentín Gómez, 34

  First Bull Run, Battle of, 44, 74, 87, 175

  Fitzgerald, James, 124

  Fogg, William, 243

  Foos, Paul, 6

  Fort Concepción, 11

  Fort Guadalupe, 123, 248

  Fort Loreto, 123, 248

  Fort Santa Barbara, 11, 42

  Fort Santiago, 11

  Foster, John, 204

  Franklin, battle of, 47

  Fraser, William, 110

  Frazier, Donald S., xi, 6

  Freeman, Douglas Southall, 238

  Frost, Daniel, 54

  Furber, George, 132

  Galt, Patrick, 139

  Garcia, Manuel, 65

  Gardner, John L., 64, 79, 172, 174–75

  Gardner, William, M., 4, 268

  Garland, John, 29, 183–85, 203, 206, 225, 234, 239

  Geary, John W., 222, 256

  Gettysburg, 185

  Gordon, George H., 220

  Graham, William, 205

  Grant, Ulysses, S., 21, 51, 78, 125, 192, 206–208, 229, 234–36, 254, 270–71, 306

  Guadalupe Hidalgo, 237

  Treaty of, 266–68

  guerrillas, 7, 16, 57, 105, 116–18, 120, 131, 134, 138–42, 145, 147–48, 246–48, 251–53, 269

  Hagner, Peter V., 83, 215

  Hale, William, 43

  Hancock, Winfield Scott, 185, 255

  Hardee, William, 47, 197

  Harney, William S., 18–19, 49, 60, 68, 125–26, 142, 154, 225–26, 238, 338

  and Battle of Cer
ro Gordo, 78, 79–81, 84–87, 92, 95

  Harrison, William, 309

  Hartman, George, 221, 302

  Haskell, William T., 89–91, 314

  Haynes, Sam W., 299

  Hays, Jack, 252

  Henry, Robert Selph, 5

  Herrera, Miguel, 48

  Heth, Henry, 254–55

  Higgins, William, 36

  Hill, Ambrose Powell, 21, 67, 245–47, 249–50, 254, 260

  Hill, Daniel Harvey, 21, 22, 27, 29, 32–33, 36, 37, 40, 44, 54, 55, 109, 131, 134, 193, 196, 211, 215, 217, 221, 224, 232–33, 238, 240, 242, 244–45, 253–54, 256–57, 262, 264

  and fighting at Padierna, 165, 172, 174, 178

  Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 21, 25, 47, 53, 128–29, 143, 148, 196, 208, 212, 217, 228

  Hoffer, Jacob, 102

  Hooker, Joseph, 139, 149, 220, 255

  Howe, William, 268

  Huamantla, 249

  Huger, Benjamin, 203–204, 215, 237

  Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, 93

  Hunt, Henry J., 218

  Hunter, Charles G., 60

  Ibarra, Domingo, 127, 142

  Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 113, 253

  Jackson, Thomas J., 44, 53, 54, 87, 120, 141, 165, 170, 177–78, 218, 220–21, 233–34, 312

  Jalapa, 29, 64, 66, 72, 82, 92–93, 96, 98–100, 102, 104, 121, 122, 124, 126, 127, 133, 135, 137, 139–42, 147, 195, 246–47, 250–51

  occupation of, 105–120, 139–40

  Jarauta, Caledonio Domeco, 140–41, 246

  Johannsen, Robert W., 6

  Johnson, William, 37, 53, 60, 122, 124, 168

  Johnston, Joseph E., 58–59, 69, 99, 107, 165, 175, 218–19, 222, 243, 318

  Johnston, Preston, 107, 165, 175, 330

  Jomini, Henri, 96, 140, 158, 338

  Judah, Henry Moses, 131

  Kearny, Philip, 70, 125, 160, 181, 190–91

  Kendall, George W., 20, 50, 81, 98, 103, 104, 185, 205, 207, 242

  Kinney, Henry L., 64–65

  Kirby, Edmund, 228, 231

  Kirk, Isaac, 56

  Kirkham, Ralph, 106, 118, 124, 131, 134, 145, 150, 159, 183, 189, 191, 205, 208–209, 244

  La Atalaya, 1, 70, 73, 76, 79–85, 94

  La Hoya, 120, 140–41

  Laidley, Theodore, 43, 125, 249, 256, 264–65, 314, 319

  Lally, Folliott T., 246, 248–49

  Landero, José, 48, 121

  Lane, Henry S., 110

  Lane, Joseph, 246–47, 249–52

  Las Vigas, 120, 140–41

  Lauderdale, Samuel, 2, 11, 52, 91

  Lauderdale, William, 91

  La Viga Garita, 210–11

  Lay, George Washington, 56

  Lee, Robert E., 23, 25, 27–28, 32, 37, 43, 49, 51, 54, 58–59, 99, 106, 110, 120, 125, 147, 149, 168, 186–87, 192, 235, 240, 243, 257, 264, 270

 

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