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 this edition, Civil War historian Jerry Thompson has corrected the few factual errors in the original edition and has added a new map.
- ISBN10 0826322778
- ISBN13 9780826322777
- Publish Date 1 August 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of New Mexico Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English