| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign. By Timothy D. Johnson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 365 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1541-4.)
Although the Mexican War has been overshadowed by the subsequent Civil War, it has hardly been neglected. An annotated bibliography published in 1981 listed over 4,500 Mexican War–related items and the subsequent quarter century has added substantially to that total. Given this extensive coverage, it is somewhat surprising to read Timothy D. Johnson's claim that his recounting of Winfield Scott's successful campaign down Mexico's National Road from Vera Cruz to Mexico City is designed to "fill a long-existing void" (p. 7).	1
This may be true in the narrow, technical sense that few (if any) books have been devoted solely to Scott's campaign, but the subject is hardly terra incognito. It has been dealt with in countless biographies, memoirs, diaries, and general studies of the Mexican War and, in some cases, at greater length and in even more detail than is to be found here.	. . .

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