"This 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 quarter-master trains, and the starving Texans retreated back down the Rio Grande to El Paso."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved