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Report of the capture of Vera Cruz

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Description: This manuscript details the capture of Vera Cruz by American forces. Included are troop movements, supply details and inventories, and lists of soldiers killed and wounded. The entries are dated 1847, March 28-30 and May 10.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1847.
Call number: mssHM 1958
Creator: Scott, Winfield (1786-1866)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from A.A.A., Lot 510, date unknown.
Dimensions: 30 cm :
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Vera Cruz II

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Bound in textured black material. The title, "Vera Cruz II" is embossed in the center of cover in gold lettering. The number "84" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Images are of military officers and personnel, US Naval ships, and the city of Veracruz during the American Occupation of 1914. Also includes a series of photos taken of oil fields in Tampico; photographic postcards taken by well known photographers such as W. H. Horne and Walter P. Hadsell; series of photos of London taken by his friend and fellow correspondent Jimmie Hare.

JLP 522

Vera Cruz I 1914

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Bound in textured black material. The title "Vera Cruz I / 1914" is embossed in the center of the cover in gold lettering. The number "83" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Images are of military officers and personnel, US Naval ships, San Juan de Ulau, and the city of Veracruz during the American Occupation. Also includes photographic postcards taken of casualties and destruction during the Mexican Revolution, some by well known photographers such as W. H. Horne and Walter P. Hadsel.

JLP 521

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A Correct Map of the Seat of the War in Mexico : Being a copy of Genl. Arista's Map, taken at Resaca de la Palma, with additions and corrections; embellished with diagrams of the Battles of 8th and 9th May, and capture of Monterey, with a memorandum of forces engaged, results, etc. and Plan of Vera Cruz and Castle of San Juan de Ulua : Designed by J.G. Bruff

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A very busy map. Includes accounts of the battles of Buena Vista and Vera Cruz. View of Vera Cruz in lower margin. Submaps: Four battles. Vignettes: Charging cavalry, Vera Cruz. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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Correspondence [almost all are letters of congratulations to Albert Kimsey Owen for having survived the wreck of the Vera Cruz in 1880]

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This collection consists of papers related to Albert Kimsey Owen, the rise and fall of the Topolobampo utopian colony in Sinaloa, Mexico (1886-ca. 1903), railroad development, and Owen's survival of the wreck of the Vera Cruz in 1880. The collection also includes a diary, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and notebooks of Owen. There are also some later notes and correspondence of Professor George Renner related to the disposition and custody of Owen's papers in the 1940s-1950s.

mssOwen

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Two scrapbooks chiefly of newspaper clippings [one is on the sinking of the Vera Cruz in 1880]; 1 issue of El Gazetero, 1903 May 1

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mssOwen

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Correspondence, Orders and Reports

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The collection, which deals with the Mexican War, consists of correspondence, military orders, reports, lists of prisoners, and paroles of honor. Participants include: William Orlando Butler, Sylvester Churchill, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, George W. Hughes, Joseph E. Johnston, William L. Marcy, Thomas Marshall, Dixon S. Miles, Henry Lee Scott, Winfield Scott, Lorenzo Thomas, Henry J. Wilson, the Adjutant-General's Office, and the U. S. Inspector General's Office. The material deals with: troop movements, food and supplies, recruiting and enlistments, mustering of volunteers, as well as Jalapa, Puebla, Tampico, and Veracruz, Mexico. Also included are 31 paroles and lists of Mexican prisoners captured in the spring of 1847 and at the Battle of Cerro Gordo. The collection also contains the signed paroles of Brigadier Generals Anastasio Torrejón, and Antonio Gaona of the Mexican Army.

mssHM 64970-65036

Report of the capture of Vera Cruz

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