Dugard also follows other young officers of later Civil War fame:?Stonewall Jackson, Gettysburg’s George Meade, Braxton Bragg and James Longstreet. The surprise of Dugard’s group is Jefferson Davis, vilified and demonized later as the Confederate President he ended up acting the most heroic of the officers who first saw action in Mexico. Lee, a scout and William Tecumseh Sherman, who was “buried” in far-off California. So it fell to their subordinate officers of 1846-47 to excel in 1861-65:?U.S. But Scott was too old for combat in the Civil War, and Taylor was dead. Zachary Taylor in the north and Winfield Scott in the south of Mexico. The real heroes of the Mexican War were Gens. Martin Dugard, Little, Brown & Co., $29.99, Hardcover.Īlthough the subtitle of Martin Dugard’s excellent book is “Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-48” and the author protests that his volume is not a history of the Mexican War, it is actually a very good survey of the two major campaigns of that war and how it trained soldiers for the Civil War.
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