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Correspondence of JAMES K. POLK
TO ZACHARY TAYLOR
Washington City
June 8th 1848
Sir:

It gives me pleasure to comply with the request of Congress, by transmitting to you, an authenticated copy of a Joint Resolution of that body, approved on the 9th ultimo, entitled “Joint Resolution of thanks to Major General Taylor.”1 As soon as the gold medal directed by the Resolution to be struck can be prepared it will be presented to you.

JAMES K. POLK

ALS. DLC–JKP. Addressed to Baton Rouge, La. See also ALS, photocopy, DLC–ZT, and ALS, press copy, DLC–JKP.

  1. The enclosure has not been found, though the manuscript envelope for it has. DLC–ZT. The joint resolution thanked Taylor and the other officers and soldiers “for their valor, skill, and good conduct . . . in the battle of Buena Vista”; it directed Polk to inform Taylor of the resolution and to present him with a gold medal. SL, 30th Congress, 1st Session, Number 7.↩