Re: August 1847 KIA 2nd Lt Jacob SPERRY 2nd PA Infantry
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August 1847 KIA 2nd Lt Jacob SPERRY 2nd PA Infantry
Julia Bright 2/17/08
I Googled -Captain Naylor Mexican War- and this result is a scanned book about the events of the Mexican War. Click on the link and you at page 484. Scroll back to page 261 and a discription of the same incident, "...party of guerillas had succeeded in breaking open the mule yard..." Read earlier pages for the major defeat suffer in two battles Aug 19-20, 1847.
Notes of the Mexican War, 1846-47-48: Comprising Incidents, ... - Google Books Resultby J. Jacob Oswandel - 1885 - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 642 pages
Charles Naylor, of the Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, ... were coming to destroy their government and to take possession of the Mexican Dominion, ...
books.google.com/books?id=b7cBAAAAMAAJ...
Link from address box:
http://books.google.com/books?id=b7cBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484&dq=Captain+naylor+Mexican+War&source=web&ots=O7SvllMP2Y&sig=Etoova7vEQqhYzjzy6OCarIDzKg&hl=enhttp://books.google.com/books?id=b7cBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484&dq=Captain+naylor+Mexican+War&source=web&ots=O7SvllMP2Y&sig=Etoova7vEQqhYzjzy6OCarIDzKg&hl=en
Page 244 starts Chapter V and first date of diary is Aug 7th, 1847
Page 264 to 265 accounts Sperry's death. Seems he was in the hospital so it might have been a medical discharge, then recovered enough to join the mule party as a volunteer officer.
Another website with Mexican War Time line:
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/mexican-war/mexican-war-time-line.htmhttp://www.sonofthesouth.net/mexican-war/mexican-war-time-line.htm
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Re: August 1847 KIA 2nd Lt Jacob SPERRY 2nd PA Infantry
Julia Bright 6/11/08