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Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (The American Social Experience, 11) Paperback – Illustrated, November 1, 1994

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The day-to-day experiences of the American soldiers fighting in the Mexican War

James McCaffrey examines America's first foreign war, the Mexican War, through the day-to-day experiences of the American soldier in battle, in camp, and on the march. With remarkable sympathy, humor, and grace, the author fills in the historical gaps of one war while rising issues now found to be strikingly relevant to this nation's modern military concerns.

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"With effortless command of fact and an almost universal conversational writing style, McCaffrey (and his soldiers) bring us an on-the-spot understanding of Mexican War enlistment procedures, weaponry, punishments, disease and medical care, recreation, disdain for Mexican civilians, rivalry of volunteers with regular army men, food, shelter, and clothing. . . . This book fills a long-standing need. It may well become the Billy Yank of the Mexican War." ― The Filson Club Historical Quarterly

"James McCaffrey is to be commended. Army of Manifest Destiny illuminates the Mexican War as an episode in the on-going history of the American soldier, as a prelude to the Civil War military experience, and as a major event in the history of American expansion. A well-researched book which will be of use to anybody interested in the social history of the American soldier. Its easy style will make it attractive to the general reader as well." ― Tennessee Historical Quarterly

"McCaffrey is at his best conveying the personal dimension of the war experience. The real strength of the book lies in the effective arrangement of bit and pieces of letters and diaries, which reveal emotions and attitudes that are variously humorous, shocking, and poignant. . . . The story is compelling. . . . A well-researched and entertaining study that will hold the attention of students and general readers." ― The Journal of Southern History

"Deals with every facet of the soldier's involvement, as opposed to the experiences of a single unit or individual. . . . it must rank as the best source on the subject. The literary style is suitable for virtually every level of reader and is remarkably easy to follow." ― Choice

"From the letters of soldiers on the battlefield to analyses of military policy and procedures, this is an essential volume for anyone studying the Mexican War in depth." ― Midwest Book Review

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James McCaffrey is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Downtown and is the author of This Band of Heroes: Granbury's Texas Brigade, C.S.A.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ NYU Press (November 1, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 294 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0814755054
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0814755051
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.74 x 9 inches

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Hershel Parker

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McCaffrey gives a vivid sense of the men through hundreds (surely hundreds) of quotations from letters. He is NOT giving a history of the Mexican War. For example, I wanted to see something about Santa Cruz de Rosales and did not find any mention of this battle fought after the peace treaty was agreed to. Go to it for the right reason and you will not be disappointed.

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This book was good more for its subject (and the necessity of writing a book about it) than any brilliance on the author's part. In fact, when the author states that he only wrote this book because he was an actor in a 1980's TV show about the Civil War and was curious about the Mexican-American War experience, his lack of credentials showed. This book's writing style feels amateurish, and does nothing to pull the reader in. Instead of giving the reader a full view into the mindset of an American soldier in the 1840's in Mexico, the author distances himself greatly from the soldiers' minds by constantly complaining how racist and ethnocentric they were. This is typical apologetic garbage from the 1990's, not objective scholarship. For one thing, I doubt the soldiers would have called themselves "racist," and it would have done the author a great service to try to understand WHY the soldiers had such low opinions of Mexicans (perhaps because of their voluntarily low standards of living, acquiescence to a corrupt government and a church of loose morals, lack of technological and economic progress, etc). Adding an understanding that most of the soldiers had never gone more than a dozen miles beyond their homes until they joined the army would have helped that understanding as well.

There is no discussion in this book about the equipment of the soldiers, whether regular or volunteer. There is no mention of the types of uniforms that the volunteers chose for their units. The author repeats himself for no apparent reason several times in this book, not only to complain about racism but to say that the soldiers would overcome this racism in order to get with Mexican women. This is another point where the author seems ignorant of facts: American men before the Civil War regularly had children with black slaves despite being fiercely racist, so why should Mexicans be treated any differently? He states that some American soldiers and Mexican women got married, but fails to mention any specific examples and how their marriages turned out personally.

All in all, I only liked this book because of its topic. I feel better informed about crime and punishment in the U.S. Army on campaign in Mexico, and about the deserters that joined the Mexican Army, but other than that I feel I would be much better served by bypassing this author and reading the primary sources myself. With that in mind, the author has supplied an extensive list of sources in the end of the book, which I will be researching now.

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When he is not mentioned I am disappointed. However

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I am researching a particular doctor who served during the Mexican War. When he is not mentioned I am disappointed. However, the book does describe the circumstances very well and should help with an understanding of daily life during wartime.

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