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Bloody Valverde : a Civil War battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 /
When Jefferson Davis commissioned Henry H. Sibley a brigadier general in the Confederate army in the summer of 1861, he gave him a daring mission: to capture the gold fields of Colorado and California for the South. Their grand scheme, premised on crushing the Union forces in New Mexico and then mov...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
©1995.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Origins
- Prelude to a fight
- Opening gambits
- The battle is joined
- Apparent victory
- Change of command
- The tide turns
- The field is lost
- Pyrrhic victory
- Retrospective.