10 Tennessee volunteers come home
According to Fox News, ten Tennessee volunteers are coming home after they were killed in the Mexican War in 1846.
The soldiers were part of the Army of Occupation led by former President Zachary Taylor – then a general – who fought in the 1846 Battle of Monterrey. Out of a force of more than 6,000 soldiers from Tennessee, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas, only 120 U.S. troops were killed and 43 went missing in the three day mêlée in which American forces defeated the Mexican Army of the North.
Archaeologists in Mexico discovered the remains of 10 soldiers between 1995 and 2011 as the scientists dug in an area where a construction company planned to build.
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Tennessee believes the soldiers were part of the state’s militia. About 30,000 Tennesseans responded to calls for additional troops and about 35 were killed in action…
Thanks to Tom and Bobo for the link.
Category: We Remember
Now there’s a name not seen or thought of in quite a while.
“Old Rough and Ready”
Welcome back to home soil.
Old, Rough, And Ready.
What is: How does Bill Clinton like his women?
Well, now. THAT is really something! Welcome home, boys!
Welcome home.
I have no reservations about speaking ill of those critters in D.C., but once in a while one of them does something that deserves praise. In 2011, when these remains were found, then-newly elected Congresswoman Diane Black (R-TN) heard about it and resolved to see these soldiers returned to home soil. She contacted the oBaMa administration but was told the matter was in Mexico’s hands. Undeterred, she pushed the matter and pushed the matter and was the only member of Congress on hand at Dover when the remains were returned. On her website, she wrote: “Coming from a family of military veterans, this journey has been deeply personal for me. I may not know these soldiers’ names, and I may never get the chance to, but they deserve our gratitude and a proper burial that honors their sacrifice. As we await the results of forensic testing, we do so with hope that these heroes are identified and returned to their families so that, somewhere in Tennessee, a handful of young sons and daughters would know of the patriotism and courage displayed by a family patriarch they never even knew and would gain a deeper love of their country in the process. Sometimes it takes 170 years to do it, but Tennesseans can be proud to know that the United States has once again honored a sacred creed: ‘leave no man behind.’”
So, I salute Representative Black and thank her for her efforts. Welcome back to home soil, men.
Thanks for that information. I’d never have known about the congresswoman’s efforts.
Welcome home, men.
Rest well.
Welcome home. Rest in peace in your home soil now.
Hmm-well if Wikipedia is to be believed they were from the 1st Tennessee Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Volunteer Division. They were under the command of Colonel William B. Campbell (the other Regiment in the Brigade, from Mississippi, was commanded by Jefferson Davis himself). Other notables involved in the battle include Albert Sidney Johnston-famously killed leading the Confederate forces at Shiloh-and Braxton Bragg, famously incompetent in almost everything he ever did.
I can’t quite blow the picture up enough to tell if that is the TN TAG MG Haston (in class As), but it appears to be a General officer of some sort and he is the most likely match.
Totally incompetent in almost everything he did? Well, his legacy lives on in Daniel Bernath.
A fair analogy-now imagine Bernath in command of thousands of men during brutal fighting, losing continuously. And then imagine they name a major military base after him afterwards.
Hey Tennessee.
That is about the crappiest Honor Guard I have ever seen.
For 10 KIA returning home.
National Guard?
Give me a week and I could have hundreds of National Guard troops there is uniform, in formation with a Color Guard. And all on thier own time.
Give me a month and I will have armor with fly overs…
And that is just a nobody making a few phone calls. Imagine what a governor or TAG could do…
At Appomatox Courthouse, General Ulysses Simpson Grant and General Robert Edward Lee vaguely recalled once meeting each other when they were in the Mexican War.
If memory serves, Grant’s best friend was James Peter Longstreet. Louis Armistead and Winfield Scott Hancock were practically brothers, and eyewitnesses at the Gettysburg High Water Mark said that the mortally-wounded Armistead was reduced to tears when he heard that Hancock had also been hit.
I also remember reading somewhere that George Pickett was admitted to West Point on the recommendation of Congressman Abraham Lincoln, and even as a Confederate general would tolerate no insult to Lincoln in his presence.
Welcome home men
Rest well
Salute…