Box 1 contains the letters and broadside. Box 2 contains preservation photocopies made by the library. and Correspondence and papers created by Zachary Taylor relating to his military activities. The correspondence includes autograph letters, signed, and letters, signed, by Taylor to military and government correspondents, including Thomas W. Ringgold; Jefferson Davis; James K. Polk; Roger Jones, Adjutant General of the United States Army; and Thomas Sidney Jessup. Also included is an autograph letter, signed, to Judge Thomas Butler of Louisiana regarding Taylor's reflections on the Battle of Buena Vista against Mexican forces commanded by Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1847 March 6, and letters describing Taylor's travels to his family members, including his daughter, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Dandridge and his brother, Hancock Taylor. The papers also include a printed broadside proclamation, signed by Taylor, beginning "Proclamacion por el general comandante del Exercito de los Estados Unidos de America a la nacion Mejicana" and regarding the Mexican War, circa 1846.
Description:
Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke, 1960-1971. Purchased from Morrill on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 1, 1963 and from Western Hemisphere, Inc. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1969. Source information is recorded on the folders. and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was the 12th President of the United States (1849-1850) and an American military leader with a four-decade career that ended with victories during the Mexican War.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Jones, Roger, 1789-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politicians--United States and Soldiers--United States
A long description of the revolt of the Pennsylvania troops. He goes on to describe, in the coded portion of the letter, the panic which affected some members of Congress.
Announcement of his arrival. He also discusses the events of his voyage, and other military details, ending with his pledge to do all he can to establish American independence.
Discusses a loan made by Mr. Price which needed to be repaid, and suggests that a fast-sailing frigate be sent to Havana, where funds would be available.
News that the German prisoners of war in western Pennsylvania had spread unfavorable rumors concerning the French troops. He proposes that the Counts de Deux Ponts make a tour of those parts spreading counter- propaganda.
A report that the French fleet is under way, and that it will be ready to participate in an offensive against the English armies during the summer. With an accompanying list of the naval forces under his command. Rochambeau's note on the first page states that he received it on the 10th of June when his army was just setting out from Providence.
The enclosure gives the news of the disastrous defeat at Camden. La Luzerne comments that this defeat opens all of the Carolinas to British invasion, which he predicts will soon come. He also speaks of purchases of horses being made near Lancaster, Pa., and of the expected arrival of dispatches from France on the Alliance, which had just arrived at Boston.