The battle of Buena Vista with the operations of the "army of occupation" for one month by James Henry Carleton

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Notes: "Report of the killed, wounded, and missing in the Battle of Buena Vista": p. 191-212; Includes some material translated from the Spanish; Publisher's advertising: 8 p., 2nd & 3rd sequence; Sabin, 10905; SCDIRB copy (39088001433655) inscribed in ink on 1st front free endpaper: Brigr. General Sylvester Churchill, Inspecter General U.S. Army from his obedient servant and very sincere friend James Henry Carleton; SCDIRB copy has occasional ms. pencilled notes and corrections to text; SCDIRB copy stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Jul 22 1913 [ms. acc. no.] 227520; SCDIRB copy in original red leather binding, gilt-floriated decorations on cover, gilt edges, yellow endpapers

Place: Buenavista (Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico); Mexico; New York (State); New York

Topic: Buena Vista, Battle of, Mexico, 1847--History; Buena Vista, Battle of, Mexico, 1847; Mexican War, 1846-1848--Regimental histories