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The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott

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When General Stephen Watts Kearny’s Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri volunteer, used to be included in its ranks. Along with Lieutenant Elliott’s duties within the Laclede Rangers, he served as an ordinary correspondent to the St. Louis Reveille. An entertaining and educated observer, Elliott provided readers back home with an account of the grueling march over the famous Santa Fe Trail, the triumphant entry of the army into Santa Fe, the U.S. occupation of New Mexico, and the volunteers’ eventual return to St. Louis.

Noted southwestern scholars Mark L. Gardner and Marc Simmons present here, for the primary time, all of Elliott’s letters published within the Reveille under his nom-de-plume, John Brown, the usage of passages from his autobiography for a similar period to fill in a break as a result of a couple of missing letters. Also included are Elliott’s literary sketches, drawn from his Mexican War experiences and the folk he met and served with.

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