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Book Description
Now available only from the UNM Press, this long out-of-print and hard-to-find classic tells the story of the Texas invasion of New Mexico during the American Civil War. In early 1862, Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley marched thirty-four hundred coarse Texas farmboys, cowhands, and frontiersmen into New Mexico and up the Rio Grande Valley. Although seriously bloodied, they repulsed Union troops at the Battle of Valverde. As the poorly supplied Texans pushed northward, New Mexicans stripped the land bare of food, fodder, and livestock. East of Santa Fe at Glorieta, Union volunteers defeated Sibley's Confederates and burned their quartermaster trains, and the starving Texans retreated back down the Rio Grande to El Paso.
For the UNM Press edition, Civil War historian Jerry Thompson has corrected the few factual errors in the original edition and has added a new map.
About the Author
Martin Hardwick Hall (1925-1981) published extensively on Civil War Texas. Jerry Thompson is dean of humanities at Texas A & M International University. His numerous historical publications include Fifty Miles and a Fight: Major Samuel Peter Heintzelman's Journal of Texas and the Cortina War.
Sibley's New Mexico Campaign,Martin Hardwick Hall,University of New Mexico Press,0826322778,1816-1886,Campaigns,Civil War, 1861-1865,History,History - Military / War,History: American,Military - General,Military History - U.S. Civil War,New Mexico,New Mexico - Local History,New Mexico Campaign, 1862,Sibley, Henry Hopkins,,United States - Civil War,United States - State & Local - General,American history: c 1800 to c 1900,Sibley, Henry Hopkins
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