The Military Heroes of the War of 1812: With a Narrative of the War; [with] The Military Heroes of the War with Mexico: With a Narrative of the War

208, 282, 6 pp. Marbled page ridges and endpapers. CONTENTS: Preface; The War of 1812: Origin of the War - To the Spring of the Year 1814 - To the Close of the Contest; The Heroes of the War of 1812: William Hull, James Winchester, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Henry Dearborn, James Wilkinson, John Armstrong, George Croghan, William Henry Harrison, Richard M. Johnson, Isaac Shelby, Jacob Brown, Eleazer W. Ripley, James Miller, Nathan Towson, Thomas S. Jessup, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Peter B. Porter, Alexander Macomb, Samuel Smith, Andrew Jackson. Preface; The War with Mexico: The Origin of the War - Campaign on the Rio Grande - Conquest of New Mexico and California - Advance on the Captial - The Fall of the Captial; The Heroes of the War with Mexico: Zachary Taylor, Samuel Ringgold, Charles May, William O. Butler, William J. Worth, John E. Wool, Stephen W. Kearny, John C. Fremont, A. W. Doniphan, Samuel H Walker, Winfield Scott, David E. Twiggs, Joseph G. Totten, Robert Patterson, Persifer F. Smith, James Shields, James Duncan, Bennet Riley, John A. Quitman, Joseph Lane, Gideon J. Pillow, George Cadwalader, William S. Harney, Franklin Pierce, Roger Jones.