The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846-1876 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Bacha-Garza, Roseann (Author, Editor), Miller, Christopher L., 1950- (Author, Editor), Skowronek, Russell K. (Author, Editor)
Other Authors:	Gallagher, Gary W. (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019].
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 46.
Subjects:	United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865. Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) > History, Military > 19th century. Texas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Gary W. Gallagher
Prelude: from the Seno Mexicano Frontier to the Nueces Strip Borderland / Christopher L. Miller
To occupy and possess our own: the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the fight for the Rio Grande Valley / Douglas A. Murphy
Life lived along the Lower Rio Grande during the Civil War / M. M. McAllen
Race and ethnicity along the antebellum Rio Grande: emancipated slaves and mixed race colonies / Roseann Bacha-Garza
Separate wars and shared destiny: Mexico and the United States, 1861-1878 / Irving W. Levinson
Col. José de los Santos Benavides and Gen. Juan Nepomuceno Cortina: two astounding Civil War Tejanos / Jerry Thompson
Los Algodones: the cotton times on the Rio Grande / Karen G. Fort and Tom A. Fort
From the Bluegrass to the Rio Grande: Kentucky's US Colored Troops on the border, 1865-1867 / W. Stephen McBride
Archeological insights into the last battle of the Civil War: Palmito Ranch, May 12-13, 1865 / Rolando Garza
The Black military experience in the Rio Grande Valley / James N. Leiker
Discovering America's forgotten war front: the Rio Grande in the era of the American Civil War / Russell K. Skowronek.