An Account of the March of the American Highlanders from the Summit to the City of Mexico by way of Pittsburg, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, etc.... 1848

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An Account of the March of the American Highlanders from the Summit to the City of Mexico by way of Pittsburg, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, etc. GA51., 1848

An Account of the March of the American Highlanders from the Summit to the City of Mexico by way of Pittsburg, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, etc.... 1848

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Jacobus Magendie Confer, a 21 year old medical student, enlisted as a "high" private in the American Highlanders at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1846. He mustered in as a private in Compay B, 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers at Pittsburgh on January 3, 1847, and was promoted to 4th sergeant just seven days later. On August 5, 1847, Confer was detached to the regimental hospital as ward master. He mustered out of service with Company B on July 14, 1848. During the Civil War, Confer served as a surgeon with the 29th Indiana Volunteers from February 10 to December 8, 1863. This unpublished narrative provides an unusually detailed and articulate account of Confer's Mexican War experiences beginning with his enlistment in the American Highlanders on December 25, 1846, concluding in Jalapa, Mexico, on May 6, 1847. He provides detailed accounts of his shipboard journeys on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans and into the Gulf of Mexico to Tampico and Vera Cruz. Although Confer did not experience battle during the period of the narrative, he provides meticulous detail of the conditions endured on the march,descriptions of the Mexican landscape, and observations of the aftermath of battle.

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