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Bloody Valverde - A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 (Paperback)
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Bloody Valverde - A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 (Paperback)
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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 moving unimpeded north and
west, began to unravel along the sandy banks of the Rio Grande late
in the winter of 1862. At Valverde ford, in a day-long battle
between about 2,600 Texan Confederates and some 3,800 Union troops
stationed at Fort Craig, the Confederates barely prevailed.
However, the cost exacted in men and materiel doomed them as they
moved into northern New Mexico. Carefully reconstructed in this
book is the first full account of what happened on both sides of
the line before, during, and after the battle. On the Confederate
side, a drunken Sibley turned over command to Colonel Tom Green
early in the afternoon. Battlefield maneuvers included a disastrous
lancer charge by cavalry--the only one during the entire Civil War.
The Union army, under the cautious Colonel Edward R. S. Canby,
fielded a superior number of troops, the majority of whom were
Hispanic New Mexican volunteers. "The definitive study of the
Battle of Valverde."--Jerry Thompson, author of Henry Hopkins
Sibley
General
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