Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Gary W. Gallagher
  • Prelude: from the Seno Mexicano Frontier to the Nueces Strip Borderland / Christopher L. Miller
  • To occupy and possess our own: the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the fight for the Rio Grande Valley / Douglas A. Murphy
  • Life lived along the Lower Rio Grande during the Civil War / M.M. McAllen
  • Race and ethnicity along the antebellum Rio Grande: emancipated slaves and mixed race colonies / Roseann Bacha-Garza
  • Separate wars and shared destiny: Mexico and the United States, 1861-1878 / Irving W. Levinson
  • Col. Jose de los Santos Benavides and Gen. Juan Nepomuceno Cortina: two astounding Civil War Tejanos / Jerry Thompson
  • Los Algodones: the cotton times on the Rio Grande / Karen G. Fort and Tom A. Fort
  • From the Bluegrass to the Rio Grande: Kentucky's US Colored Troops on the border, 1865-1867 / W. Stephen McBride
  • Archeological insights into the last battle of the Civil War: Palmito Ranch, May 12-13, 1865 / Rolando Garza
  • The Black military experience in the Rio Grande Valley / James N. Leiker
  • Discovering America's forgotten war front: the Rio Grande in the era of the American Civil War / Russell K. Skowronek.