General Scott and his staff : comprising memoirs of Generals Scott, Twiggs, Smith, Quitman, Shields, Pillow, Lane, Cadwalader, Patterson and Pierce; Colonels Childs, Riley, Harney, and Butler, and other distinguished officers attached to General Scott's army; together with notices of General Kearney, Colonel Doniphan, Colonel Fremont, and other officers distinguished in the conquest of California and New Mexico. Interspersed with numerous anecdotes of the Mexican war, and personal adventures of the officers