Excerpt from The Taylor Text-Book, or Rough and Ready Reckoner General Taylor's Schoolmaster, Vigor, Courage and Manhood of Old Rough and Ready, Personal appearance of Gen. Taylor, Gen. Taylor headed, Gen. Taylor and the Gentleman's Son, Let us ride a little nearer, Gen. Jackson's Opinion of General Taylor, Gen. Taylor at Resaca, He never fought a battle! Gen. Taylor's Titles, Anecdotes of Taylor in the Black Hawk war, Taylor and Hard Fare, Taylor and his State Carriage, Taylor and the barrel of ice, Asleep on deck, Who wrote his Despatches? Incidents of the Battle Field, Gen. Taylor's literary talents, Disregard of personal danger, Gen. Taylor and the young officer in Florida, Old Rough and Ready in Florida, Origin of the phrase Old Rough and Ready, His courage in the Florida war, His determined conduct on the field of battle, Gen. Taylor and the Kentuckians at Buena Vista, Taylor's negotiation with Ampudia at Monterey Gen: Taylor's good things, Dodging the balls, Major Bliss and I, 30 Old Rough and Ready's Pony. 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.