San Antonio College Library

The Trans-Mississippi in the Civil War has been largely neglected and Terrell's Texas Cavalry contains some fine research in this area. The book is an excellent history of the Texas Calvalry Regiments of Terrell, Likens, Buchel, and Herbert who served in Texas and fought General Banks in the Louisiana Red River Campaign. Without them the Confederates could not have turned back General Banks.

A limited-edition reprint of the rarest and most-quoted contemporary book on the Confederate side of the Civil War in the Far West. Noel was with the Sibley Brigade, toughest Confederate unit that fought entirely west of the Mississippi: in New Mexico, at Galveston and in the Red River battles in Louisiana. Few fighting outfits of North and South rode as far or fought in such diverse areas as did the Sibley Brigade: from the deserts of New Mexico...

General Robert E. Lee's army was a surprise to almost everyone : With daring early victories and an invasion into the North, they nearly managed to convince the North to give up the fight. Astonishingly, after 150 years of scholarship, there are still some major surprises about the Army of Northern Virginia. Historian Joseph T. Glatthaar draws on sources assembled over two decades -- from letters and diaries, to official war records, to a new, definitive...

Uses letters, journal entries, family stories, and official war records to chronicle the experiences of the soldiers who served in the Ninth Texas Cavalry during the Civil War.

Robert S. Weddle weaves the letters exchanged between Americus Leonidas Nelms and his wife Minerva Jane--his maternal grandparents--during the Civil War into a narrative about the Civil War itself. He resists the temptation to make it a family story, offering evidence of heroism and self-sacrifice by those whose forebears served in the Confederacy. The Civil War story, from whatever angle it is viewed, is one of pathos, suffering, and tragedy. It...