US Mexican War Unit Histories

United States U.S. Military  Mexican War  Unit Histories

Unit Histories and Narratives

 * William Hugh Robarts. Mexican War Veterans
 * Norman E. Tutorow. compiled and edited. The Mexican War. an annotated bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981


 * "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)

Alabama

 * Steve R. Butler. Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Richardson,Texas: Descendants of Mexican War Veterans, 1996
 * Steve R. Butler. "Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican War" Alabama Genealogical Society Magazine 23 (1991): 37 -
 * 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

Arkansas

 * Desmond Walls Allen. Arkansas' Mexican War Soldiers. Conway,Arkansas: Arkansas Research, 1988.

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

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

 * Indiana in the Mexican War
 * 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

 * Daniel Tyler. A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, 1846-1847.(1881)

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

Maryland

 * Charles J. Wells. Maryland and District of Columbia in the Mexican War. Westminister,Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1991.
 * 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. FHL 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
 * Michigan in the Mexican War

Mississippi

 * Joseph E. Chance. Jefferson’s Davis Mexican War Regiment. Jackson ,Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1991
 * 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. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2000

New York

 * Francis D. Clark,James Daniel Lynch. The New York Volunteers in California. 2 vols (1882)
 * 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

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

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.
 * 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.

Tennessee

 * Reid Brock. Tennesseans in the War with Mexico. [S.l.]: Kitchen Table Press, 1986.

Texas

 * Henry W. Barton. Texas Volunteers in the Mexican War. Wichita Falls, Texas: [Texian Press, 1970]
 * Charles D. Spurlin. Texas Volunteers in the Mexican War. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press,1998.
 * Charles D. Spurlin. Texas Veterans in the Mexican War. Muster Rolls of Texas Military Units.
 * 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 volentarios[i.e. voluntarios] en la guerra con Mexico. Westminister, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2002.
 * Lee A Wallace, Jr. " The First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, 1846-1848." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 77 (1969): 46-77
 * Robert R. Jones, ed. " The Mexican War Diary of James Lawson Kemper " Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 74 (1966): 387-428

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
 * Wikipedia Saint Patrick's Battalion
 * San Patricio Battalion: A Bibliography

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 S. Furber. The Twelve Months Volunteer. Journal of a Private in the Campaign of Mexico, 1846-1847 Cincinnati: J.H. & U. P. James, 1848