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...Wilson replaced Jim Jones on the mound for Army, and the Cadets folded. With two away in the fourth and Tom Cavanaugh on second with a double to left, Ed Foynes beat out an infield hit, Ralph Robinson singled, and White cleared the bases when left fielder Frank Winfield badly misjudged his harsh drive. Benny Akillian followed with a triple and came in on a bad throw by the right fielder...
...wrote a scathing letter criticizing the Administration. The letter was made public and Taylor was reprimanded. He refused to be silenced. He sent off another bitter letter of protest, which was later widely distributed. While still in a huff, Taylor refused to meet with the general in chief, Winfield Scott, who was planning a Mexican expedition and wanted to use some of Taylor's troops. In retaliation, Scott stripped Taylor of most of his command. With his remaining troops, Taylor went on. to win a resounding victory at Buena Vista in 1847. Two years later...
...Winfield Scott first attracted public attention as a major general when he strongly criticized General Andrew Jackson. The hotheaded Jackson challenged him to a duel, but Scott declined. In 1828, he was back in the public eye when he was relieved of his command after repeatedly threatening to disobey the orders of the general in chief, Alexander Macomb. Despite his many squabbles and reprimands, Scott himself became general in chief in 1841. True to form, he clashed with Secretary of War William Marcy over conduct of the Mexican War, wrote in one blistering letter: "I do not desire to place...
Died. Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, 61, U.S.N. (ret.), first husband of Wallis Warfield, now Duchess of Windsor; of a heart ailment; in San Diego, Calif...
...Throughout his life, Grant detested bloodshed ("I never went into a battle willingly or with enthusiasm"), refused even to hunt animals. "I had a horror of the Mexican War," he once wrote, "only I had not moral courage enough to resign." From the campaigns fought by Mexican War Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor (Grant's military idol), observant Grant shrewdly unlearned some of early 19th Century West Point's rigidified teachings, e.g., the maxim that an attacking force must be at least three times larger than a fortified defending force (U.S. commanders in Mexico repeatedly attacked such...