Doniphan's Epic March The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War

by Joseph C Dawson III
1999 University Press of Kansas pp. 198-9

I do a lot of historical reading...came across this years ago.

William Cullen Bryant made the most important analogy between Doniphan and Xenophon in the June 25 1847 edition of the Post. WCB, notable poet and journalist, is founder and editor of the New York Evening Post.