 | New York (State). State Historian - Armed Forces - 1903 - 676 pages
...there sailed from Fortress Monroe a joint naval and military expedition under Commodore Goldsborough and General Butler, which captured Forts Hatteras...into the hands of the insurgents in the spring of 1861. He was commissioned colonel of the Fourteenth Regular Infantry May 14, 1861, and brigadier-general... | |
 | Charles Haven Ladd Johnston - Frontier and pioneer life - 1913 - 428 pages
...States, and, as many of the Rangers had old scores to settle with the Mexicans, they did good service in the campaign which ended in the capture of the City of Mexico. " Big Foot" Wallace was a second Lieutenant and acquitted himself nobly, particularly in the storming... | |
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... Stone was born September 30, 1824, at Greenfield, Massachusetts; graduated from West Point July i, 1845, and was assigned to the ordnance corps. During the Mexican War he was attached to the only siege battery in the army. He served on the staff of... 