Sibley's New Mexico Campaign

Martin Hardwick Hall

• Publisher: Braunfell Books
• Year: 2023
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781805230465
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

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.-Print ed.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• Acknowledgments
• Illustrations
• Maps
• Introduction
• I-New Mexico on the Eve of the War
• II-The “Sibley Brigade” Marches to New Mexico
• III-General Canby Prepares To Meet the Confederate Threat
• IV-The Battle of Valverde
• V-Onward to Albuquerque and Santa Fé
• VI-Colorado Volunteers at the Skirmish of Apache Canyon
• VII-The Battle of Glorieta Pass
• VIII-The Decision To Evacuate New Mexico
• IX-The Retreat from New Mexico
• X-The End of the Campaign
• Appendix
• Bibliography