Box 4299.001

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This diary by John W. Betterley, a US Marine serving on board the USS Michigan, describes the United States' invasion of the port and city of Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914 amid US President Woodrow Wilson's opposition to Mexican general Victoriano Huerta's regime during the ongoing Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). The diary's initial pages contain verse and song lyrics. The account of the invasion begins on April 21, 1914, as Betterly relates how the ...