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100 1 $aCurtis, Samuel Ryan,$d1805-1866.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90000250
245 10 $aMexico under fire :$bbeing the diary of Samuel Ryan Curtis, 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment, during the American military occupation of northern Mexico, 1846-1847 /$cedited and annotated by Joseph E. Chance.
260 $aFort Worth :$bTexas Christian University Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9406
300 $axvii, 307 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.
520 $aColonel 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.
520 8 $aNor 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.
520 8 $aA 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.
600 10 $aCurtis, Samuel Ryan,$d1805-1866$vDiaries.
650 0 $aMexican War, 1846-1848$vPersonal narratives, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101639
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bOhio Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1846-1847)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94011330
650 0 $aMexican War, 1846-1848$xCampaigns$zMexico.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91003619
650 0 $aSoldiers$zOhio$vDiaries.
700 1 $aChance, Joseph E.,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83184540
852 00 $boff,glx$hE411$i.C87 1994