Show Notes and Bibliography for Jefferson Davis and La Teneria, Battle of Monterrey
Show Notes and Bibliography for Jefferson Davis and La Teneria, Battle of Monterrey
Narration, Pictures, Videos and Project done with Samsung S10+, Audacity for Audio, Davinci Resolve 16 by Mary Shuman
Terrain, forts, houses by W. Eric Lauterbach
Mississippi Rifles, Mexican Army, US Army figures painted by John Desch (Friend of W. Eric Lauterbach and borrowed for the video)
Voices:
Jefferson Davis: William Eric Lauterbach
Author and Mexican Soldier, Ramon Alcarez: J. Adam Lauterbach
Quotes about battle from Joseph Davis Howell: Will (Evan) Lauterbach
Image list (not in order of appearance in video)
“Under the Commission of Massachusetts We Shall March Forward to the Mountain Plains of the Aztecs:Recruiting Volunteers for the First Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment during the Mexican War. Massachusetts Historical Society.
Massachusetts Historical Society: Online Collections (masshist.org)
U.S. Capitol, 1846. United States Senate. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistohry/history/common/image/Capitol_1846.htm
Image of Monterrey, Battle Map“Maps of the Mexican American War” Openstax CNX, Rice University. Page by Lorena Gauthereau. August 23, 2011. https://cnx.org/contents/LdYbRnvi@4/Maps-from-the-Mexican-American-War
Image of Front Cover of a Winfield Scott Handbook (book used by Jefferson Davis for training). https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=20359832522&cm_mmc=ggl-_-COM_Shopp_Rare-_-naa-_-naa&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqo3-BRDoARIsAE5vnaKyAht7eiY6VP5BLsTEBoNdw27AofJOQhEyHAPqj9SzEA4dXJXvaFIaAvaIEALw_wcB#&gid=1&pid=1
Multiple images from the Digital Website: A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War, Battle of Monterrey. UT Arlington Library Special Collections. 2020.Battle of Monterrey : Images | A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War (uta.edu)
Multiple Images: “ Mississippi and the US. Mexican War: 1846-1848.” Mississippi Historical Society. 2017. http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/202/mississippi-and-the-us-mexican-war-1846-1848
Image of Sarah Knox Taylor and Jefferson Davis from “Presidential History Blog: Zachary Taylor, Reconciliation.” By Feather Schwartz Foster. https://featherfoster.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/zachary-taylor-reconciliation/
Image of Sarah Taylor Davis grave. “Find a Grave. “ Added by: Bert Plocharski on 17 Aug 2004. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20981/sarah-knox-davis#view-photo=1115172
Image of Book on Dysentery,
Borcht, Petrus van der, and Johannes Voet. “Disputatio medica inauguralis de dysenteria, quam summo favente, ex authoritate magnifici rectoris, D. Johannis Voet … Nec non amplissimi senatûs academici consensu, & nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus & privilegiis ritè & legitimè consequendis, ” Apud Abrahamum Elzevier, academiae typograph., 1686.
Image of La Teneria
Balbontin, Manuel.La Invasion Americana. 1846 á 1848: Apuntes Del Subteniente de Artilleria. https://archive.org/details/lainvasionameri00balbgoog/page/n30/mode/2up
“Zachary Taylor” from HISTORY. A and E Networks. 10/2019. https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/zachary-taylor#&gid=ci0230e631b00e2549&pid=engraving-of-zachary-taylor-after-alonzo-chappel
Camargo images from Thorpe, Our Army on the Rio Grande, sourced on this website. Steven Butler’s Family History http://www.watermelon-kid.com/family/bios/butler-mexican_war1.htm
Image of Mexican Monterrey Map from Blogspot by Pablo Ramos. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TtzBnG-bj3c/W4s2vIFytbI/AAAAAAAALAs/XxY7oPNnC_Q-I8k4SRxnLvS0xBPP_HAwACLcBGAs/s1600/mapa%2Bmexic.JPG, Blogger: User Profile: Pablo Ramos(Pedro de Ampudia)
“Map of Mexico” Son of the South, original source unknown. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/texas/map-texas-mexican-war.jpgBurying the dead at Monterrey. Painter not listed https://library.uta.edu/usmexicowar/item?content_id=508&topic_id=11&format_id=1&ofst=1&ni=2
Battle Map (min 7:44 ) by Cartographer S. Dowdy and Images of Walnut Springs and Bishop’s Hill. https://history.army.mil/brochures/The%20Campaign%20for%20Monterrey/Images/20big.jpg
“General Ampudia.” Public Domain. Pedro de Ampudia photo – Pedro de Ampudia – Wikipedia
Convent of Churubusco. Painting by James Walker. Public Domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Churubusco-convent.jpg
Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Reading Room. Monterrey battle/lithographs:
Birds-eye view of the camp of the army of occupation, commanded by Genl. Taylor, near Corpus Christi, Texas … Oct., 1845. Lithograph by G. & W. Endicott, 1847, after Capt. D. F. Whiting, 7th Inf.Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-4557 (color film copy transparency)
General Taylor approaching Monterey. Lithograph by B. F. Butler, 1846.Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-7556
Heights of Monterey, from the Saltillo road looking towards the city … Worth’s division moving into position under the guns of the enemy … on the morning of 21st Sept., 1846. Lithograph by G. & W. Endicott, 1847, after Capt. Whiting, 7th Inf.Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-3931
Monterey, from Independence Hill, in the rear of the Bishop’s palace … Sept. 23, 1846. Lithograph by G. & W. Endicott, 1847, after Capt. D. F. Whiting, 7th Inf.Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-6129 (color film copy transparency)
A camp washing day. Wood engraving in The Journal of Wm. H. Richardson, 1848.Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-127 https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/picamer/paMexican.html
Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects
Arras.Wav by Sarson. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License. https://freesound.org/people/sarson/sounds/155624/
Freesound – “civil war music .wav” by adeluc4
Free Music Archive Clips
Beethoven Sonata No 1 in F Minor III Menuetto Allegretto. Played by Daniel Veesey. Creative Commons. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Veesey/Beethovens_Sonata_No_1_In_F_Minor/Sonata_No_1_in_F_Minor_Op_2_No_1_-_III_Menuetto_Allegretto
Konstantin Trokay. Red in Black by Kosta T is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kosta_T/Soul_Sand_1117/Kosta_T_-_23_-_Red_in_Black
The Bluff Trail (Instrumental) by Chad Crouch is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Field_Report_Vol_I_Oaks_Bottom_Instrumental/The_Bluff_Trail_Instrumental
Forgotten Marches by Kai Engel is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Written_in_Ink/Kai_Engel_-_Written_in_Ink_-_04_Forgotten_Marches
Permission granted from composer Soularflair with royalty paid for use.
Cue 1 – Sad-Forlorn-Gentle-Piano reverb (A Beautiful Death) by Soularflair is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soularflair/Solo_Piano_or_primarily_piano/Cue_1_-_Sad-Forlorn-Gentle-Piano_reverb_A_Beautiful_Death_1766
Primary Sources
From The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 2, pp. 589-91. Addressed to “A Gentleman in Vicksburg.” Transcribed from the Vicksburg Sentinel and Expositor, May 26, 1846.https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/archives/documents/jefferson-davis-oregon-territory
Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.), 30 Sept. 1846. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053972/1846-09-30/ed-1/seq-3/>
Davis, Jefferson on surrender of monterrey, The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.), 25 Feb. 1847. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023914/1847-02-25/ed-1/seq-1/>
“Monterrey” in The Other Side: Or, Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, by Ramon Alcarez et al. trans. Albert C. Ramsey (New York: John Wiley,) 1850. https://go-gale-com.mutex.gmu.edu/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE%7CCY0100862432&v=2.1&u=viva_gmu&it=r&p=SABN&sw=w
Quotes from this book within the audio, Voice Actor: Adam Lauterbach
Thorpe, Thomas Bangs. Our army at Monterey : being a correct account of the proceedings and events which occurred to the “army of occupation” under the command of Major General Taylor
… with a description of the three days’ battle and the storming of Monterey … Carey and Hart, 1847. Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CY0101540749/SABN?u=viva_gmu&sid=SABN&xid=5832327dAccessed 23 Sept. 2020
Quote From The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 3, pp. 24-25. Transcribed from the Vicksburg Weekly Sentinel, October 27, 1846.https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/archives/documents/jefferson-davis-joseph-e-davis
Quotes from Joseph Davis Howell, Original Source, Mississippi Archives, found in Bibliography of Winders, Richard Bruce. “The First Mississippi at Monterrey, Life after the Armistice.” in Panting for Glory: the Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War First edition. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.
Battle information from J.E.S. and other letters, Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, November 11, 1846, Image 3 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress (loc.gov)
Secondary Sources
Required Reading
A Perfect Gibraltar: The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846, by Christopher Dishman, Kindle Edition. (Volume 26) (Campaigns and Commanders Series). University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
An entire book about the specific battle, most important of the required reading, has extensive primary sources, including significant Mexican army history and positions, focused more on the military science of the battle and the Texas Rangers, who were more active due to their experience in urban warfare on day 2 and 3 of the battle. Battle sequence used for the audio.
“Gateway South, The Campaign for Monterrey”, by Stephen A Carney. Last updated 15 March 2006. https://history.army.mil/brochures/The%20Campaign%20for%20Monterrey/The%20Campaign%20for%20Monterrey.htm#intro
The U.S Army official maps and campaign history of the battle. Succinct and quick review of events. This brochure is for a quick read of the background prior to the battle, including some of the politics. The volunteers are discussed within a context as it relates to the regular army. Also useful for maps and pictures of Monterrey.
Winders, Richard Bruce. “The First Mississippi at Monterrey, Life after the Armistice.” in Panting for Glory: the Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War First edition. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.
Book specific to the Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican American War. This work helps understand the volunteer militia roles versus the professional US Army. Specific chapters about this battle and Jefferson Davis as Colonel. Battle notes and quotes for audio.
Recommended Reading
“Monterrey I: Approach, Monterrey II. ‘Three Glorious Days,” Monterrey III. Truce.” So Far from God, by John Eisenhower, Random, 1989, pp. 117–144.
This is a straightforward review of each regiment of the US Army and Volunteers of the Battle of Monterrey with significant sourcing throughout primary accounts. These chapters also discuss the background of political tensions after Taylor’s success at Monterrey with the change in his command.
Like Civilized Nations.” In The Dead March, A History of the Mexican-American War. By Peter Guardino. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 2017
He addresses ordinary Mexicans, Mexican army and their history, guerilla warfare by Mexican civilians and army. This chapter pertains to specifics leading up to the Battle of Monterrey and afterwards. Large sourcing from Mexico sources. Excellent book giving the side of the Mexican forces. Gives a brief history of Mexico prior to the Mexican American War and its defeat.
Extra Readings
“Mexican Proclamations” in Our army of Monterey. Being a correct account of the proceedings and events which occurred to the “Army of occupation” under the command of Major General Taylor by Thomas Thorpe. 1847. Library of Congress. https://archive.org/details/ourarmyofmontere00thor/page/110/mode/2up
One of the many accounts from a primary source detailing letters and proclamations from General Ampudia after the Battle of Monterrey. Leading officer viewpoint.
Doyle, Robert C. “Manifest Destiny versus Nativism: Mexico, 1846–1848.” In The Enemy in Our Hands: America’s Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror, 69-88. University Press of Kentucky, 2010. \ http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcngh.10.
Good overview of how to conduct treatment of prisoners in foreign countries, especially as it pertained to the Mexican American war. But this chapter also outlines all the battles in Mexico, so is helpful for these campaigns.
Gene M. Brack. “Mexican Opinion, American Racism, and the War of 1846.” The Western Historical Quarterly 1, no. 2 (1970): 161-74. Accessed October 27, 2020. doi:10.2307/967858.
Interesting article on the views of Mexican people, their opinions for war with the United States, and American racism.
Cirillo, Vincent J. ““More Fatal than Powder and Shot”: Dysentery in the U.S. Army During the Mexican War, 1846–48.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52, no. 3 (2009): 400-413. doi:10.1353/pbm.0.0097.
Review of the lack of sanitary conditions in camp, especially next to water and other areas difficult to live for long periods of time. Examples of severe loss of life due to disease in the Mexican American war showing the risks of contaminated water.
More Secondary Sources Used for this video
Carney, Stephen. “The Occupation of Mexico, May 1846 to July 1848.” https://history.army.mil/html/books/073/73-3/CMH_Pub_73-3.pdf
“Sarah Knox Taylor Davis.” https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/peoplelist/sarah-knox-taylor-dav
Jay, William. A review of the causes and consequences of the Mexican war. 2nd ed., B.B. Mussey & co., 1849. Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CY0100120726/SABN?u= viva_gmu&sid=SABN&xid=527bf303. Accessed 2 Nov. 2020.
Foos, Paul. A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
