This is one of the finest illustrated works to mark the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. They are generally considered the finest battles scenes depicted in print and were drawn in the battle field by Carl Nebel. The high quality plates are by Bayot and lithographed by the firm of Lemercier. George W. Kendall (1809-67) was a journalist in New Orleans who had been calling for military conflict with Mexico. When war finally broke out he rode out to join the battles and witnessed most of them. Wounded in the knee he was mentioned in some dispatches. Although the book was sold in New York the text was printed in New Orleans and the superb plates printed in Paris. Bennett ‘American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books’ p. 65; DAB; Howes K76; Peters ‘America on Stone’ p. 295; Sabin 37362.