ABSTRACT
Writing from Mexico City of the political and military turmoil she witnessed a year before Margaret Fuller would similarly write of the tumult in Rome, Jane Cazneau wrote eye-witness reports of the Mexican War that capture the drama of war. A correspondent to the New York Sun, Cazneau sent articles about the Mexican War and the siege of Vera Cruz in dispatches marked by her crisp journalistic style and informed by both her understanding of the political and economic ramifications of the conflict and her sympathy for the people of Mexico who suffered at the hands of ambitious Mexican leaders and the American forces. Known to her readers as “Montgomery,” Cazneau like Fuller cloaked her dispatches in anonymity (Fuller used the Star or asterisk to mark her journalism); like Fuller, Cazneau was encouraged by her editor to send articles from abroad, some of which were reprinted in Horace Greeley’s paper New York Tribune, for which Fuller sent her dispatches from Europe.
