US Mexican War Unit Histories

United States U.S. Military Mexican War Unit Histories

Unit Histories and Narratives

State volunteer regiments many have a published history written or compiled by a veteran, a descendent or interested individual. The histories many have biographical data on officers and unit rosters of members, and they often provide clues to the town or county where the soldiers were living when they enlisted. Published county histories may also have information on military units raised in their locality. See also the Wiki article United States, Mexican War Military Unit Names - FamilySearch Historical Records

• "The Mexican-American War : unit histories and personal narratives" LexisNexis, 2004 (460 microfiches) (Worldcat)

A guide to the publication above is available online:

• A Guide to the Microfiche Edition of The Mexican-American War Unit Histories and Personal Narratives (LexisNexis)

Army Unit Histories

• War Department. Army of the West, 1846-1847. Administrative History Note. NARA
• War Department. Army of Occupation. 4.23.1845-1848. Administrative History Note. NARA

Regular Army

• War Department. 1st Infantry Regiment. 1815- 09/18/1947. Administrative History Note. NARA
• War Department. 9th Infantry Regiment, 1847-1848. Administrative History Note. NARA

Alabama

• Steve R. Butler. Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Richardson, Texas: Descendants of Mexican War Veterans, 1996 FS Library 976.1 M2bs
• Steve R. Butler. "Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican War" Alabama Genealogical Society Magazine 23 (1991): 37 - 40
• J. Hugh LeBaron, et.al. Perry County, Alabama, First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers 1846-1847 and the Mexican War, diary of Captain William G. Coleman. Starkville, Mississippi: J.H. LeBaron, 2002 FS Library 976.1 M2L

Arkansas

• Desmond Walls Allen. Arkansas' Mexican War Soldiers. Conway, Arkansas: Arkansas Research, 1988. FS Library 976.7 M22adwa

California

• Janin Hunt. The California Campaigns of the U.S. Mexican War, 1846-1848. Jefferson,North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2015

Florida

• Frederick T. Davis "Florida's Part in the War with Mexico." Florida Historical Quarterly 20 (1942): 235-259
• James D. Russell. Too Late for Blood: Florida Volunteers in the Mexican War. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2005 FS Library 975.9 M2j

Georgia

• Wilburg G. Kurtz, Jr. "The First Georgia Regiment of Georgia Volunteers in the Mexican War. Georgia Historical Quarterly 27 #4 (1943): 301-323

Illinois

• Otto B. Engelman. ed. "The Second Illinois in the Mexican war. Letters of Adolph Engelman, 1846-1847. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 26 (January 1934)

Indiana

• Perry, Oran Indiana in the Mexican War Indianapolis : W.B. Burford, (contractor for state printing), 1908. FS Library DGS 8885841
• Duncan,H.C. "Monroe County in the Mexican war" Indiana Magazine of History 12 (December, 1916): 287-298
• Bailey,Thomas. "Diary of the Mexican War" Indiana Magazine of History 14 (1918):134-147.
• Roscoe C. Burley. "Indian in the Mexican war." Indiana Magazine of History 15(1919): 260-292;293-326; 16 (1920):46-68
• Graham A. Barringer. ed. " The Mexican War Journal of Henry S. Lane " Indiana Magazine of History 53 (1957): 383-434

Iowa

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• Daniel Tyler. A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, 1846-1847.(1881)
• Sherman Fleek. History Mat be Searched in Vain. a military history of the Mormon Battalion. Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clarke, 2006
• Philip St. George Cook. The Conquest of New Mexico and California, 1846-1848.New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1878.

Kentucky

• Report of the Adjutant General Mexican War Veterans
• Charles E. Hinds. ed. " Mexican War Journal of Leander M. Cox " Kentucky Historical Society Register 55 (1957): 29-52,213-236; 56 (1958): 47-70, FS Library 976.9 B2ky
• john W. Trowbridge. "The Salt River Tigers:Anderson County and the Mexican War." Kentucky Ancestors Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society 40, #1 (Autumn 2004): 2-9,50, FS Library 976.9B2ka v.40
• James I Dantic" The Kentucky Volunteer Foot Soldier in the Mexican War: A Social History of Company B, Second Regiment, Kentucky Infantry Volunteers" Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Society 95 (Summer, 1997): 237-283, FS Library 976.9 B2k v.95
• Damon R. Eubank. "A Time of Enthusiasm: the Response of Kentucky to the Call for troops in the Mexican War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 90 (Autumn 1992): 323-344, FS Library 976.9 B2k v.90
• John C. Breckinridge ; with the remarks of the Rev. John H. Brown, on the same occasion, An address on the occasion of the burial of the Kentucky volunteers, who fell at Buena Vista : delivered at Frankfort, on Tuesday, the 20th of July, 1847New Haven : Frederick W. Beinecke, 1965 FS Library Digital

Maryland

• Charles J. Wells. Maryland and District of Columbia in the Mexican War. Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1991. FS Library 975.2 M2we
• John R. Kenly Memoirs of a Maryland volunteer. War with Mexico, in the years 1846-8

Massachusetts

• Fred W Cross. Historical Sketch of the First Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry in the Mexican War. FS Library film 1556974 item 11

Michigan

• Isaac D. Toll. "Michigan Soldiers in Mexico" Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections 7(annual 1884): 112-21
• Isaac D. Toll. "Michigan's Record in the Mexican War." Pioneer and Historical Collections 2(annual 1877): 171-177
• Richard W. Welch, comp Michigan in the Mexican War (1967) FS Library 977.4 M23w

Mississippi

• Joseph E. Chance. Jefferson’s Davis Mexican War Regiment. Jackson ,Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1991 FS Library 973 M2cje
• H. Grady Howell. Mississippi Rifles. a muster of all known Mississippi soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 2005 FS Library 976.2 M2hm
• Robert A. Brent. "Mississippi and the Mexican War." Journal of Mississippi History 31 (1969):202-214

Missouri

• William Elsey Connelley. Doniphan's expedition and the conquest of New Mexico and California: war with Mexico, 1846-1847.Kansas City, Missouri : Bryant & Douglas, 1907. reprint, with extensive additions, of John T. Hughes' "Doniphan's Expedition," first published in Cincinnati in 1848. FS Digital Library
• Frank S. Edwards. A Campaign in New Mexico with Colonel Doniphan Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1847. Reprint Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996
• John T. Hughes. Doniphan's expedition : containing an account of the conquest of New Mexico, General Kearny'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 Fe : with a sketch of the life of Col. Doniphan Cincinnati, Ohio : J.A. & U.P. James, 1850 FS Digital Library
• Kenneth E. Weant.The Mexican War Arlington, Texas : K.E. Weant, c2004 FS Library 977.8 M2wke v. 1 vol. 1. The Missouri volunteers of the 1st & 2nd Regiment & their attached units (3,386 names); chronological index to selected articles & unit rosters with newspaper articles.
• Joseph G. Dawson. Doniphan's Epic March. The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War. University Press of Kansas, 1999
• A history of Battery "A" of St. Louis : with an account of the early artillery companies from which it is descended; a paper read before the society February 11, 1904, by Valentine Mott Porter ... St. Louis : s. n., 1905 FS Digital Library
• Joseph C. Butner The Chihuahua Rangers : the disposables Westminster, Maryland : Heritage Books, Inc., c2006 FS Library Book 977.8 M2bjc
• Oliva, Leo E. Missouri Volunteers on the Santa Fe Trail, 1847-1848 Part One The Trail Guide XV (June 1970) FS Library digital
• Oliva, Leo E. Missouri Volunteers on the Santa Fe Trail, 1847-1848 Part One The Trail Guide XV (Sept 1970) FS Library digital

New York

• Clark, Francis D. The First Regiment of New York Volunteers Commanded by Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson, in the Mexican War. New York: Geo S. Evans & Co., Printers, 1882
• Clark, Francis D. Roll of Survivors of the First Regiment of New York Volunteers, Commanded by Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson. New York:Frank McElroy's Mercantile Steam Printing House,1874
• California Military Museum First Regiment of New York Volunteers
• Wikipedia 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers

North Carolina

• Lee A. Wallace. "Raising a Volunteer Regiment for Mexico, 1846-48." North Carolina Historical Review 35 (1958): 20-33, FS Library 975.6 B2h v.35
• Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War with Mexico. being the muster-out rolls of the first regiment of North Carolina foot volunteers, and the companies "G" and "I" of the twelfth United States infantry. Raleigh N.C.: J. Daniels, 1887 FS Library Fiche 6014543
• William S. Hoffman. North Carolina in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 Raleigh, North Carolina : State Dept. of Archives and History, 1969 FS Digital Library

Ohio

• Daniel J. Ryan. "Ohio in the Mexican War." Ohio Archeological and Historical Society Publications. 21 (1912): 277-295*
• Luther Giddings. Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexican by an Officer of the First Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. Geo. P. Putnam & Co., 1853
• Maria Clinton Collins. ed. " Journal of Francis Collins, an Artillery Officer in the Mexican War " Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 10 (1915): 37-109

Pennsylvania

• Randy W. Hackenburg. Pennsylvania in the War with Mexico. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Maine Pub Co., 1992. FS Library 974.8 M2h
• Thomas Lynch Montgomery. ed. Pennsylvania Archives. Sixth Series. Volume Ten. War of 1812-1814; Mexican War, 1846-1847. Harrisburg, Pa.: Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1907, pp 250-458, FS Library 974.8 A39p ser 6 v.10
• John R. Evans. "The Reading Artillerists in the Mexican War. Historical Review of Berks County 15 (October 1949): 130-141 FS Library 974.816 B2h v.15
• J. Jacob Oswandel. Notes on the Mexican War, 1846-47-48.comprising incidents, adventures and everyday proceedings and letters while with the United States Army in the Mexican War, also extracts from ancient histories of Mexico, giving an accurate account of the first and original settlers of Mexico, etc., also the names and numbers of the different rulers of Mexico, also influence of the Church. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: [s. n.,1885]

South Carolina

• Ernest M. Lander. "The Palmetto Regiment Goes to Mexico." Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (Annual 1973): 83-93
• Jack Allen Meyer. An Annotated Roster of the Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Winnsboro,South Carolina: Greenbrier Press, 1994.FS Library 975.7 M2mj
• Jack Allen Meyer. South Carolina in the Mexican War: a Regiment of Volunteers,1846-1917. Columbia, South Carolina: S.C. Dept. of Archives and History Co., 1996.FS Library 975.7 M2mje

Tennessee

• Reid Brock. Tennesseans in the War with Mexico. 2 volumes. S. l.: Kitchen Table Press, 1986. FS Library 976.8 M2br
• George S. Furber. The Twelve Months Volunteer. Journal of a Private in the Campaign of Mexico, 1846-1847 Cincinnati: J.H. & U. P. James, 1848

Texas

• Henry W. Barton. Texas Volunteers in the Mexican War. Wichita Falls, Texas: Texian Press, 1970. FS Library 976.4 M2b
• Charles D. Spurlin. Texas Volunteers in the Mexican War. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press,1998.FS Library 976.4 M2sp
• Charles D. Spurlin. Texas Veterans in the Mexican War. Muster Rolls of Texas Military Units. Nacogdoches, Texas: Ericson Books, 1984.FS Library 976.4 M2sc
• John K. Holland. ed. Diary of a Texan Volunteer in the Mexican War. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 30 (1962): 1-33

Virginia

• William Page Johnson. Off to War: the Virginia Volunteers in the War with Mexico, or Fuera de guerra: la Virginia volentariosi.e. voluntarios en la guerra con Mexico. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2002. FS Library 975.5 M2j
• Lee A Wallace, Jr. " The First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, 1846-1848." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 77 (1969): 46-77, FS Library 975.5 B2v v.77
• Robert R. Jones, ed. " The Mexican War Diary of James Lawson Kemper " Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 74 (1966): 387-428, FS Library 975.5 B2v v.74

Saint Patirck's Battalion

• Robert Ryal Miller. Shamrock and Sword: the Saint Patrick’s Battalion in the US Mexican War. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press,1989 FS Library 973 M2ms
• Dennis J. Wynn. The San Patrico Soldiers. Mexico's Foreign Legion. [El Pasco]: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Pasco, 1984
• Wikipedia Saint Patrick's Battalion
• San Patricio Battalion: A Bibliography

Naval Sources

• Santelli, Gabrielle M. Neufeld Marines in the Mexican War. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division. Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1991
• Semmes, Raphael. Service Afloat and Ashore During the Mexican War. Cincinnati: Wm. H. Moore & Co., Publishers, 1851

Other Sources

• James M. McCaffrey. Army of manifest destiny : the American soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York University Press, 1992
• Richard Bruce Winders. Mr. Polk's Army. The American Military Experience in the Mexican War. Texas A & M University Pres, 1997
• Tyler V. Johnson. Devotion to the Adopted Country: Immigrant Volunteers in the Mexican War. University of Missouri Press, 2012
• George W. Smith and Charles B. Judah. Chronicles of the Gringos: the U.S. Army in the Mexican War,1846-1848; accounts of eyewitnesses & combatants. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1968 FS Library 973 M2scg
• Dwight Lancelot Clarke, ed. The original journals of Henry Smith Turner with Stephen Watts Kearny to New Mexico and California, 1846-1847 Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, c1966 FS Library921.73 T853o

Related Wiki Articles

• US Mexican War Service Records
• United States, Mexican War Military Unit Names - FamilySearch Historical Records
• Mexican War, 1846 to 1848
• US Mexican War Society Records

Bibliography

• William Hugh Robarts. Mexican war veterans : a complete roster of the regular and volunteer troops in the war between the United States and Mexico, from 1846-1848; the volunteers are arranged by states, alphabetically Washington, D.C. : Brentano's, 1887 Reprint. FamilySearch Digital Library
• Norman E. Tutorow. compiled and edited. The Mexican War. an annotated bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981 FS Library 973 H23tu
• George Winston Smith & Charles Judah, Chronicles of the gringos : the U.S. Army in the Mexican War, 1846-1848; accounts of eyewitnesses & combatants Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press, c1968 FS Library 973 M2scg