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15 Marvin A, Kreidberg and Merton G. Henry, History of Military Mobilization in the United States Army, 1775–1945 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1955), pp. 4446, hereafter cited as Mobilization; Benson J. Lossing, The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869), pp. 366, 742; American State Papers, Military Affairs, 7 vols, (Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1834), 1:618; Charles W. Elliott, Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man (New York: Macmillan Co., 1937), p. 151.
16 American State Papers, Military Affairs, 1:495.
17 Elliott, Winfield Scott, pp. 146–47, 162.
18 American State Papers, Military Affairs,' 1:330, 425; William Duane, A Hand Book for Infantry, 9th ed. (Philadelphia: William Duane, 1814), p. 20; Callan, Military Laws, pp. 136, 213, 219, 228, 240.
19 American State Papers, Military Affairs, 1:199–200; Elliott, Winfield Scott, pp. 228–29.
20 General Regulations for the United States Army, 1821, pp. 85–89; Michael Howard, War in European History (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1976), pp. 83–84.
21 General Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1831, p, 67.
22 Justin H. Smith, The War With Mexico, 2 vols, (New York: Macmillan Co., 1919), 1:143–80 passim; Kreidberg and Henry, Mobilization, pp. 73–75.
23 Mounted infantry men were dragoons who reached the battlefield on horse but as foot soldiers.
24 Callan, Military Laws, pp. 367–69, 373, 375, and 380; Kreidberg and Henry, Mobilization, p. 73; Mexican War Correspondence (Washington, D.C.: Wendell and van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848), p. 458.
25 Mexican War Correspondence, pp. 417–19, 498–500; Edward D. Mansfield, The Mexican War: A History of Its Origin (New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1850), p. 57.
26 Mexican War Correspondence, pp. 513–14; John D, Eisenhower, So Far From God: The U.S. War with Mexico 1846–1848 (New York; Random House, 1989), pp. 178–91; Dastrup, Kings of Battle, pp. 71–78.
27 R. S. Ripley, The War with Mexico (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1849), pp. 17, 55–56; Mansfield, The Mexican War, pp. 225–27.
28 Stanley L. Falk, "Artillery for the Land Service; The Development of a System," Military Affairs 28 (Fall 1964); 97–110.
29 Regulations of the Army of the United States, 1857, p. 13.
30 Ibid,, pp. 13, 71–73.
31 George B. McClellan, McClellan's Own Story: The War of the Union (New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1887), p. 2; War Department General Orders (WD GO) 49, 1861.
32 McClellan, McClellan's Own Story, p. 68.
33 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Ser. 1, 53 vols. (Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1881–98), 5:11–17, hereafter cited as OR; WD GO 49, 1861.
34 Robert M. Epstein, "The Creation and Evolution of the Army Corps in the American Civil War," Journal of Military History 35 (Jan 1991): 21–46; OR, 5:11–67 passim, Congress provided for army corps on 17 July 1862.
35 A cavalry squadron was and still is equivalent to a battalion.
36 Philip H. Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, General of the United States Army, 2 vols. (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1888), 1:347.
37 Ibid.; B. W. Crowninshielf, "Cavalry in Virginia During the War of the Rebellion," Journal of the Military Service Institution 12 (May 1891): 527–31; Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General, 4 vols, (New York: Macmillan, 1949), 2:483, 487; OR, 25:471–72; Moses Harris, "The Union Cavalry," Journal of the U.S. Cavalry Association 5 (Mar 1892): 2–16.
38 Henry J. Hunt, "Our Experience in Artillery Administration," Journal of the Military
