Kearny's March by Winston Groom

Author:Winston Groom
Language: ru
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307701411
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-11-07T20:00:00+00:00

* Military officers in those times were permitted to bring a servant along with them. Since Emory was from a slaveholding family in Maryland, it is highly probable that his servant was a bondsman. Likewise with Lieutenant Warner.

† In Santa Fe it had been learned that a map of sorts had been constructed of at least the central part of New Mexico. At that point, anything would have helped. When officers would ask villagers about trails, terrain, and directions they simply shrugged their shoulders. Few, if any, had ever been far outside their own village.

‡ The Navajos were the most numerous tribe around Santa Fe, numbering an estimated 12,000.

§ Catalogued later on the march to California by Captain Emory.

‖ They were, however, allowed to chew, and their temples at the time were supplied with spittoons at the ends of pews.

a Anyone not aspiring to the Mormon faith was a “Gentile,” Jews included.

b The Mormons’ clothing was poor because they hadn’t purchased any. Instead they sent all the money received for their military clothing allowance back to Winter Quarters for the purchase of emigrant supplies.

c Five wives of Mormon officers were allowed to accompany their husbands, but they had to provide their own mules.

d Cooke had managed to purchase twenty “good” mules in Albuquerque, but almost immediately Kearny requisitioned them to take Frémont’s dispatches on to Washington.

e The tipster was forty-six-year-old Mme. Gertrudis “La Tules” Barceló, an infamous card sharp and gambling hall operator in Santa Fe, known for her prominent wig and false teeth, who had heard it from her mulatto servant, who was married to someone involved in the conspiracy.

f The colloquy here is from Eisenhower’s book, quoting from an unpublished manuscript of Teresina Bent Scheurich, Charles Bent’s daughter, who was a witness to the event.

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