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Typed transcripts of three letters written by an American soldier during the Mexican War. They concern the attacks on Veracruz and Cerro Gordo, the arrival of United States forces at Jalapa, and other aspects of the war, as well as describing the countryside and referring to family matters.
Military commisssion to Henry W. Wessels appointing him to be Lieutenant of the First Company of the 16th Regiment of Militia. Signed by Gideon Tomlinson, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of Connecticut and by Thomas Day, Secretary.
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Collected and reproduced here for the first time, these journals and maps offer a new and unique perspective on California in the mid-nineteenth century. Derby’s reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson, William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells, and Erasmus Darwin Keyes. These documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on Native and white populations.