Sixteen and a Soldier in Mexico (1846)

Captain Horace Fletcher, a Regular Army Paymaster, is sent across the border into Mexico to pay and report on a Volunteer Regiment. He has no doubt the Volunteers will prove to be the usual rabble, a shameful waste of a proud Army's valuable time. As requested by his Judge Advocate pals down the hall at Expeditionary Headquarters, he will be looking into the kinds of misbehavior that has already sent another Volunteer Regiment home in disgrace, formally de-Commissioned. On arrival, he finds...