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 - 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

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)
 * 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, FHL 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, FHL 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, FHL 976.9 B2k v.95
 * Damon R. Eubank. "A Time of Enthusiasm: the Response of Kentucky to teh Call for troops in the Mexican War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 90 (Autumn 1992): 323-344, FHL 976.9 B2k v.90

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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

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
 * 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, FHL 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 FHL 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.],1885FHL 973 M25o

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
 * 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

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 Mexicao Press, 1968
 * 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