Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - Jackson bidoro ọrụ ya na United States Army dị ka onye ọrụ nke abụọ na Company K nke 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment, na-agafe Pennsylvania, na-agbada Osimiri Ohio na Mississippi ruo New Orleans, site ebe ahụ ndị agha ahụ banyere ụgbọ mmiri gaa Point Isabel, Texas, ma zigara ha ịlụ ọgụ na Mexico-American War site na 1846 ruo 1848. A gwara ndị Jackson ka ha kọọrọ General Taylor ma gaa ozugbo site na Matamoros na Camargo ruo Monterey ma mesịa gaa Saltillo. Tupu agha nke Buena Vista, e nyere ndị ọchịagha Jackson iwu ka ha si n'agha General Taylor pụọ ma gaa n'ọnụ ọnụ Rio Grande, ebe a ga-ebufe ha na Veracruz. O jere ozi na Siege nke Veracruz
na agha ndị dị na Contreras, Chapultepec, na Mexico City, na-emecha nweta nkwalite abụọ, na ọkwa ndị agha nkịtị nke onye isi ndị agha. Ọ bụ na Mexico ka Thomas Jackson zutere Robert E. Lee na nke mbụ ya.