Posted on Sep 28, 2016
Remains of U.S. soldiers killed in Mexican-American War come home after 170 years
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Never too late to come home, Soldiers...
REPORT: The Mexican-American War lasted from 1846 to 1848 and led to the United States adding territory that would later become Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The war also helped Taylor become president in 1849 – he died suddenly in office of a stomach-related illness a year later – and was a training ground for many of the military leaders during the Civil War a decade later, including Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
REPORT: The Mexican-American War lasted from 1846 to 1848 and led to the United States adding territory that would later become Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The war also helped Taylor become president in 1849 – he died suddenly in office of a stomach-related illness a year later – and was a training ground for many of the military leaders during the Civil War a decade later, including Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Remains of U.S. soldiers killed in Mexican-American War come home after 170 years
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A great story! Thank you for sharing CPO Andy Carrillo, MS ! Welcome home, Brave Soldiers! That said, it is a shame that we could not come to agreement to have these Honored Dead buried with their Brothers-In-Arms in Mexico City at the Mexico City National Cemetery http://abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/americas/mexico-city-national-cemetery#.V-8aotcxDLE .
Mexico City National Cemetery | American Battle Monuments Commission
The Mexico City National Cemetery was established in 1851 by Congress to gather the American dead of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) that lay in the nearby fields and to provide burial space for Americans that died in the vicinity. The remains were gathered in 1851 and buried in a common grave at this cemetery. They were not identified so they are classified as unknown soldiers A small monument marks the common grave of 750 unidentified...
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