TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curtis,Samuel Ryan
AU  - Chance,Joseph E.
TI  - Mexico under fire: being the diary of Samuel Ryan Curtis, 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment, during the American military occupation of northern Mexico, 1846-1847 
SN  - 0585361185
AV  - E411 .C87 1994eb
U1  - 973.6/2 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Fort Worth
PB  - Texas Christian University Press
KW  - Curtis, Samuel Ryan,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Ohio Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1846-1847)
KW  - fast
KW  - Mexican War, 1846-1848
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Diaries
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - United States - General
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Regions & Countries - Americas
KW  - History & Archaeology
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - American
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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
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