Excerpt from Taylor and His Generals: A Biography of Major-General Zachary Taylor, and Sketches of the Lives of Generals Worth, Wool, and Twiggs; With a Full Account of the Various Actions of Their Divisions in Mexico Up to the Present Time With respect to the general's youth, all accounts agree in describing it as one of rare promise for a mili tary man. He early showed a predilection for the exercises and accomplishments which become a soldier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.