The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Gettysburg in the West, March 26-28, 1862

by John M. Taylor, Thomas S. Edrington, John Taylor

Book Overview

In 1862 a small army of Texans invaded New Mexico in order to win it for the Confederacy. Following the third day of the Battle of Glorieta Pass, the Texans realized their predicament: Here we are between two armies, one double ours and the other four times our number, 1,000 miles from home, not a wagon, not a dust of flour, not a pound of meat. While the Confederates had forced a Union retreat on the rocky, forested battlefield around Pigeon's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826322875
• ISBN13: 9780826322876
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 9.9"