Mexican War
The Mexican-American War was an armed military conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas. Mexico did not recognize the secession and subsequent military victory by Texas in 1836; it considered Texas a rebel province. In the United States, the war was a partisan issue with most Whigs opposing it and most southern Democrats, animated by a popular belief in the Manifest Destiny, supporting it. In Mexico, the war was considered a matter of national pride. The most important consequence of the war for the United States was the Mexican Cession, in which the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México were ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In Mexico, the enormous loss of territory following the war encouraged its government to enact policies to colonize its northern territories as a hedge against further losses. Source: Wikipedia.
Most of the soldiers listed below were from Caswell County, North Carolina:
NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENT COMPANY G GEORGE WILLIAMSON JR. CAPTAIN
DAVID S. JOHNSON, 1ST LIEUTENANT
ROBERT M. WILEY, 2ND LIEUTENANT
JAMES T. MITCHELL, 2ND LIEUTENANT
WILLIAM P. GRAVES, 1ST SERGEANT
CALVIN B. GRAVES, 2ND SERGEANT
JAMES M. BURTON, 3RD SERGEANT
W. P. WALINGTON, 4TH SERGEANT
YANCY CARVER, 1ST CORPORAL
FRANCIS M. BURNS, 2ND CORPORAL
IVERSON M. GLASS, 3RD CORPORAL
JOHN A. DAVIS, 4TH CORPORAL
N. L. WILLIAMSON, MUSICIAN
ALEX. ROYSTER, MUSICIAN
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MARTIN BROWNING JR.
WILLIAM MATTOCK
LORENZO BRADSHER
NATHAN WARE
WILLIAM T. KIMBROUGH
JAMES HARVILL
JOHN M. MITCHELL
JAMES C. INGRAM
GEORGE MORTON
CHARLES H. HOOPER
W. HENDERSON JR.
RICHARD D. JONES
HENRY ROLLIN JR.
WILLIAM O. GILLESPIE
JOSEPH B. KENNON
JAMES W. DUPREE
RUFUS B. CHANDLER
THOMAS TOWNSEND
GEORGE HARVILL
JOHN T. HAMBRICK
HENRY G. HOWARD
LEWIS LOVE
JAMES G. MASON
WILSON HUDGEONS
BARZILLAN JACKSON
WILLIAM A. MOORE
ALBERT G. BRADSHER
THOMAS R. HATCHETT
LINSEY ROBERTS
RICHARD R. WRIGHT
WILLIAM H. RICE
THOMAS BROOKS
ROBERT ALLEN
SOLOMON HUNTER
JAMES DILL
JESSE A. COX
JOHN H. THOMPSON
THOMAS JEFFRIES
ROBERTUS SIMMONS
DAVID GILLESPIE
MARTIN L. GOODSON
L. WATSON JONES
W. J. MONTGOMERY
JOHN BOYCE
WILLIAM P. ANDERSON
MILES BOYCE
JOHN B. HEMPHILL
DAVID BELL
JEREMIAH BRADSHER
BENJAMIN ???????
JOHN FUGUA
JOHN PIERCE
THOMAS J. FREELAND
JAMES STEPHENS
J. M. MINNOWAY
JOHN H. LEA
ELLISON C. CLARK
ROBERT B. JONES
JAMES M. CHANDLR
CHARLES B. SIMPSON
GEORGE ??????
JONATHAN TERRELL
JAMES H. MILLER
BENJAMIN PHILLIPS
IBZAN RICE JR.
JOHN W. MIMMS JR.
HIRAM M. PRICE
WILLIAM H. GLASGOW
ISAAC BOOTH
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