But he left Mexico during the war because he suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. During the Mexican-American War, Taylor served as military secretary to his father. He spent the majority of his time studying classical and military history. He was a member of Skull and Bones, a social club. Richard Taylor began college at Harvard, but he completed his studies at Yale, where he graduated in 1845. As a youth, Richard was sent to private schools in Kentucky and Massachusetts.
His father was a career military officer and commanded several forts and General Taylor's family lived with him. Much of his early life was spent living away from home in army camps and forts. Sarah Taylor died when he was nine years old. He had five older sisters, two of whom had died in infancy before he was born. Dick Taylor was the only son in the family. He was named for his father's father, Richard Lee Taylor, a Virginian who had served in the Revolutionary War. Richard Scott Taylor (known as Dick) was born on Januat the Taylor family's plantation near Louisville, Kentucky known as "Springfield". The Taylor family would have another connection to the Confederacy when son Richard joined the Confederate Army in 1861. Sarah died at age 21 from malaria shortly after her marriage. Their second oldest child, Sarah Knox Taylor, was the first wife of Jefferson Davis, who later became the President of the Confederate States of America.
Zachary Taylor and his wife Margaret (known as Peggy) had six children. Just over a decade after his death, his youngest son Richard Taylor would fight to divide it, serving as a Brigadier General in the Army of the Confederate States of America. As President, Zachary Taylor sought to keep his nation united in the face of the divisive issue of slavery.
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