Letters and Diaries

Title -   Dr. Grayson M. Prevost to Andrew M. Prevost from camp opposite Matamoros. April 23, 1846

Date -   April 23, 1846

Publication Information -   Unpublished, n.p., April 23, 1846

Format -   Letters (correspondence)

Collection -   Dr. Grayson M. Prevost papers, 1846-1849. The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Special Collections.

Call Number -   AR547-1-27

Description -   In this short letter Prevost reports on the deaths of Colonel Trueman Cross, the army’s quartermaster general, and Lieutenant Theodoric Porter. He writes disparagingly of the Mexican army in Matamoros.




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