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The Yankee invasion of Texas / Stephen A. Townsend.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Townsend, Stephen A.
- Series:
- Canseco-Keck history series ; no. 8.
- Canseco-Keck history series ; no. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- Texas.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Townsend examines the Union army's Rio Grande Expedition, which left New Orleans in 1863 and captured Brownsville, Texas. He traces the actions of these forces from the city's capture until Ulysses S. Grant ordered the abandonment of all of Texas except Brownsville in March 1864, analyzing the campaign's effects on the local populace, the two armies' morale, the Texas cotton trade, and its benefits and losses to the Northern war effort.
- Contents:
- To plant the flag in Texas
- The finest campaign of the war
- Fall back and save the cotton
- The Red River beckons
- The cavalry of the West
- Troubles south of the border
- The war ends in Texas
- War and the lower Rio Grande valley.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05409-9
- 1-60344-567-6
- OCLC:
- 648035378
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