[W. T. Sherman P. H. Sheridan Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals by U. S. Grant]@TWC D-Link bookW. T. Sherman P. H. Sheridan Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals CHAPTER XII 15/18
The treaty was finally signed the 2d of February, 1848, and accepted by the government at Washington.
It is that known as the "Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo," and secured to the United States the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas, and the whole territory then included in New Mexico and Upper California, for the sum of $15,000,000. Soon after entering the city of Mexico, the opposition of Generals Pillow, Worth and Colonel Duncan to General Scott became very marked. Scott claimed that they had demanded of the President his removal.
I do not know whether this is so or not, but I do know of their unconcealed hostility to their chief.
At last he placed them in arrest, and preferred charges against them of insubordination and disrespect.
This act brought on a crisis in the career of the general commanding.
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