Theodore O'Hara

Theodore O'Hara
Author: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes (Jr.)
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781572330085

With this book, Nathaniel Hughes and Thomas Ware offer the first complete biography of O'Hara and also analyze how "The Bivouac of the Dead" - originally written in honor of Kentuckians who had died in the War with Mexico - became so famous even as its author fell into obscurity. Hughes and Ware have meticulously researched O'Hara's life to present as complete a picture as possible of this forgotten figure.

The Green Girls

The Green Girls
Author: Tom Chaffin
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2003-08-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780807129197

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Mexico Under Fire

Mexico Under Fire
Author: Samuel Ryan Curtis
Publisher: TCU Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780875651279

Nor was the U.S. military prepared for a struggle against Mexican guerrilla forces and desperate bandits. Colonel Curtis was a diary keeper, and this record of his experiences in Mexico gives a clear picture of his efforts to restore and maintain order under nearly impossible conditions: of death and suffering in his regiment from disease, not fighting, and of the tedium of army camp life.