Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Jeff Shaara’s Gone for Soldiers, in 1847, Winfield Scott lands an American army at Veracruz and begins an inland campaign towards Mexico City.