Into Mexico with General Scott / When attached to the Fourth United States Infantry, Division of Major-General William J. Worth, Corps of the famous Major-General Winfield Scott, known as Old Fuss and Feathers, campaign of 1847, lad Jerry Cameron marched and fought beside Second Lieutenant U. S. Grant all the way from Cera Cruz to the City of Mexico, where six thousand American soldiers planted the Stars and Stripes in the midst of one hundred and fifty thousand amazed people - Edwin L. Sabin

CHAPTER		PAGE
	[The War with Mexico]	18
	[Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott]	27
I.	[The Star-Spangled Banner]	37
II.	[A Surprise for Vera Cruz]	53
III.	[The Americans Gain a Recruit]	61
IV.	[Jerry Makes a Tour]	67
V.	[In the Naval Battery]	84
VI.	[Second Lieutenant Grant]	92
VII.	[Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue!]	110
VIII.	[Inspecting the Wild “Mohawks”]	120
IX.	[The Heights of Cerro Gordo]	130
X.	[Jerry Joins the Ranks]	146
XI.	[In the Wake of the Fleeing Enemy]	154
XII.	[An Interrupted Toilet]	164
XIII.	[Getting Ready at Puebla]	175
XIV.	[A Sight of the Goal at Last]	188
XV.	[Outguessing General Santa Anna]	194
XVI.	[Facing the Mexican Host]	203
XVII.	[Clearing the Road to the Capital]	218
XVIII.	[In the Charge at Churubusco]	229
XIX.	[Before the Bristling City]	240
XX.	[The Battle of the King’s Mill]	250
XXI.	[Ready for Action Again]	269
XXII.	[Storming Chapultepec]	279
XXIII.	[Forcing the City Gates]	291
XXIV.	[In the Halls of Montezuma]	311

ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
[“You Young Rascal! What’s the Meaning ofthis Racket?”] Frontispiece
[Winfield Scott—General-in-Chief of the Armiesof the United States at the Period of His Commanding in Mexico]	27
[“And All Your Army and Guns Can’t Keep Them Off”]	46
[“’Peared Like They Were Going to Ambush Me andTake this Turkey”]	125
[Lieutenant Grant Used this as a Ladder]	264
MAPS
[The March to the City of Mexico, 279 Miles]	18
[The Campaign in the Valley of Mexico]	194

His motto in life: “If idle, be not solitary; if solitary, be not idle.”