Mexico under fire : being the diary of Samuel Ryan Curtis, 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment, during the American military occupation of northern Mexico, 1846-1847 /

Mexico under fire : being the diary of Samuel Ryan Curtis, 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment, during the American military occupation of northern Mexico, 1846-1847 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866.
Imprint:	Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©1994.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Curtis, Samuel Ryan, -- 1805-1866 -- Diaries. Curtis, Samuel Ryan, -- 1805-1866. United States. -- Army. -- Ohio Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1846-1847) United States. -- Army. -- Ohio Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1846-1847) Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Personal narratives, American. Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Campaigns -- Mexico. Soldiers -- Ohio -- Diaries. Military campaigns. Soldiers. Mexico. Ohio. Diaries. Personal narratives -- American.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11112545

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Other authors / contributors:	Chance, Joseph E., 1940-
ISBN:	0585361185 9780585361185 0875651275 9780875651279
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Colonel Samuel Ryan Curtis, engineer, lawyer, and graduate of West Point, arrived in Mexico in July of 1846 as commander of the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment to find a volatile and chaotic situation in occupied towns along the Rio Grande. American civilians of the lowest sort - men and women - mingled with Mexican townspeople, robbing, murdering, and raping. Neither civil nor military law made provisions for governing municipalities under such conditions. Nor was the U.S. military prepared for a struggle against Mexican guerrilla forces and desperate bandits. Colonel Curtis was a diary keeper, and this record of his experiences in Mexico gives a clear picture of his efforts to restore and maintain order under nearly impossible conditions: of death and suffering in his regiment from disease, not fighting, and of the tedium of army camp life. A reflective man as well as an educated one, Curtis was a keen observer. He documented social and economic circumstances, flora and fauna, and the weather, even as he chronicled political conditions and martial unrest. The resulting diary is a major contribution to studies of the Mexican War.
Other form:	Print version: Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866. Mexico under fire. Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©1994 0875651275

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.
ISBN:	0585361185 9780585361185 0875651275 9780875651279