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Excerpt from Doniphan''s Expedition: Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney''s Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan''s Campaign Against the Navajos; His Unparalleled March Upon Chihuahua and Durango; And the Operations of General Price at Santa Fé
To the kindness and courtesy of Cols. Doniphan and Price, Lieut. Col. Jackson and Maj. Gilpin, Capts. Waldo and Reid, Montgomery, Leintz, and Dudley H. Cooper, the author is indebted for much valu able information. He also desires to express the obligations under which he feels himself to the late lamented Capt. Johnston, aid-de cam to Gen. Kearney, whose notes were recently published, and to the Hon. Willard P. Hall, of Missouri, for an account Of the march of Lieut. Col. Cooke to California, and of the subsequent operations of Gen. Kearney in that country.
His acknowledgments are also due to his valued and esteemed friend, L. A. Maclean, of the Missouri Horse Guards, who generous] and gratuitously furnished most of the designs which embellish this work. These sketches were engraved by H. C. Grosvenor, of Cincinnati.
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To the kindness and courtesy of Cols. Doniphan and Price, Lieut. Col. Jackson and Maj. Gilpin, Capts. Waldo and Reid, Montgomery, Leintz, and Dudley H. Cooper, the author is indebted for much valu able information. He also desires to express the obligations under which he feels himself to the late lamented Capt. Johnston, aid-de cam to Gen. Kearney, whose notes were recently published, and to the Hon. Willard P. Hall, of Missouri, for an account Of the march of Lieut. Col. Cooke to California, and of the subsequent operations of Gen. Kearney in that country.
His acknowledgments are also due to his valued and esteemed friend, L. A. Maclean, of the Missouri Horse Guards, who generous] and gratuitously furnished most of the designs which embellish this work. These sketches were engraved by H. C. Grosvenor, of Cincinnati.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Paperback
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John T. Hughes
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781334515613
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Page Count - 208
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