Footnotes

[A] In Mexico, however, usually like s in “sun.”

[B] In Mexico usually like y.

[C] These men have to be called Texans because they hailed from that state, but it should be remembered that nearly all of them had come from other parts of the Union.

[D] “Acuerdo,” frequently to be mentioned hereafter in the Mexican citations, meant the decision of an executive conference, and was applied also to the memorandum embodying the decision. The conferences referred to will usually be those in which the President or at least the Cabinet was concerned.

[E] All the citations of the Herald in the notes on this chapter refer to the financial articles.

Transcriber’s Note

There are three types of notes in the text. The lettered notes (originally asterisks) were printed as standard footnotes on each page. References to these notes now appear in brackets as [A], [B] and so on. The notes themselves have been moved to directly follow the paragraph within which they are referenced. Occasionally, an asterisk is used for some other purpose, usually preceding rather than following a word or phrase, and remain asterisks.

In general, Spanish names, when used in English phrases, are printed without accents. The country is referred to as ‘México’ when the language is Spanish, and ‘Mexico’, without the accent, when in English. On occasion, the printer fails to observe this distinction. These are considered as printer’s errors, and have been corrected here.

Where variants in spelling occur in quoted passages, they are always retained.

The use of accents in Spanish proper nouns is not consistent. These have been corrected, where detected, to assist in searches.

On [p. 338], the reference to “37. Scott to Conner, Mar. 16” seems a corruption for “164Scott to Conner”, which agrees with all other references to this source.

On [p. 486], a reference printed as “6 Memoir on Mex. finances.” most likely should be “61Memoir on Mex. finances. Sen. 19; 30, 1, pp. 2–4 (Scott).” There is a separate reference to that memoir in [note 2], using 61.

Also on [p. 486], the asterisk appearing in “Amer. Review, Jan., 1848, p. *2” is not explained.

In the Section A of the Appendix, the ordered list of numbered resources is missing #368. Nor are there any references to that number.

The following table describes other textual issues, and the resolution of each. The [x/y] annotations mark the additions, deletions or substitutions made to the text. Minor inconsistencies of punctuation in the Notes have been silently corrected. On several occasions, letters or numbers have gone missing from the images used to prepare this text. Where the word intended is clear, these have been added silently.

p. v	[vi/vii]	Corrected.
p. 137	[ass~~embly~~	Removed.
p. 185	[boyant	sic.
p. 192	[aga[ni/in]st	Corrected.
p. 217	[neccessary	sic.
p. 280	[deser[ser]tion	Removed.
p. 286	[opposi[si]tion	Removed.
	[mea~~sure~~	Removed.
p. 291	[out-an-out	sic.
p. 348	a besieging force [c]ould	Restored.
	Roa B[a/á]rcena, Recuerdos, 197–8	Corrected.
p. 378	a[n/i]d he believed	Corrected.
p. 383	not [to] be thrown away	Added.
p. 401	Caldéron / Calderón	Accent corrected.
p. 434	dou[tb/bt]less	Corrected.
p. 449	American casu[a]lties	Added.
p. 450	He[r/n]shaw	Corrected.
p. 458	Col[l]ección de Itinerarios.	Removed.
p. 460	mutiliation	sic.
p. 480	Pennsyl[v]ania	Added.
p. 485	deficiences	Added.
p. 564	Sant[e/a] Fe	Corrected.
p. 571	Télegrafo / Telégrafo	Accent corrected.

The references in the Index are for both Volumes I and II. The volume number is included in bold type when the entries shift from one volume to the other. On occasion, these volume numbers were missed and have been added where indicated in the table below. Although each page reference has not been validated, any other corrections, discovered incidentally, are noted as well.

p. 570	California	in peace negotiations and treaty, [2.] 135...
p. 572	Chihuahua Rangers	in Doniphan’s expedition, [1.] 303, 519.
p. 582	Guizot, F. P. G.	policy of neutrality, [2]. 300;
p. 588	Mansfield, J. K. F.	at Monterey, 1. [259/239], 250, 251, 500;
p. 601	Polk, J. K.	intolerable conditions facing, 1. 134–7;
p. 613	Taylor, Zachary	condition of force, [1.] 143;
p. 617	Volunteers	conditions in Texan camps, morale, [1.] 205–8, 480, 481;
p. 620	Worth, W. J.	capture of Federation Ridge, [1.] 244–6, 498;