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- Title
"A Sincere Desire for the Honor of the Regiment": The Mutiny of Buena Vista.
- Authors
BELL, BRETT RICHARD
- Abstract
The article discusses the mutiny that occurred in the American volunteer ranks near the Mexican War battlefeld of Buena Vista on August 15, 1847. Topics covered include the discipline that inspired this mutiny, and the key event that caused it, which was North Carolina colonel Robert Treat Paine's construction of a wooden horse that was used as a form of punishment meant to humiliate the citizen-soldiers.
- Subjects
MUTINY; BATTLE of Buena Vista, Mexico, 1847; MEXICAN War, 1846-1848; PAINE, Robert Treat; MILITARY discipline
- Publication
North Carolina Historical Review, 2020, Vol 97, Issue 3, p337
- ISSN
0029-2494
- Publication type
Article