The reports and letters brought to light by John P. Wilson in this
remarkable collection offer new perspectives on the Civil War in
the West. He documents, for example, the activities of Kit Carson,
William Brady, and other well known figures whose roles in the
Civil War have been incompletely understood; highlights for the
first time the dedicated service of native New Mexican officers;
unravels the sophisticated espionage (and the brutal executions of
suspected spies) carried out by both sides; demonstrates how this
national drama took place against the backdrop of ongoing Indian
Warswith the Apaches, the Navajos, and even the Kiowasthat ensnared
both Union and Confederate armies; and elucidates the unprecedented
ways in which the conflict militarized the Southwest for decades.
The 282 letters, song lyrics, casualty lists, intelligence
dispatches, transcripts of witness testimony, newspaper accounts,
and official reports of battles that appear here build upon the
massive anthology of Civil War documentation first published in
"War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Armies" (128 volumes, 1881-1901). Wilsons
book supplements that source by including previously unavailable
materials that historians, scholars, students, and Civil War buffs
will find invaluable and intriguing.
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