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Jerry D. Thompson

Auteur van Texas and New Mexico on the eve of the Civil War : the Mansfield and Johnston inspections, 1859-1861

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Jerry Thompson is Regents Professor at Texas A&M International University in Laredo.

Bevat de naam: Jerry Dean Thompson

Bevat ook: Jerry Thompson (1)

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Texas and New Mexico on the eve of the Civil War : the Mansfield and Johnston inspections, 1859-1861 (2001) 27 exemplaren
Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade (Canseco-Keck History Series) (2001) 26 exemplaren
Confederate General of the West: Henry Hopkins Sibley (1987) 26 exemplaren
Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman (2006) 16 exemplaren
Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael de la Garza and Manuel Yturri (Fronteras Series, sponsored… (2011) 14 exemplaren
New Mexico Territory During the Civil War: Wallen and Evans Inspection Reports, 1862-1863 (2008) 13 exemplaren
Fifty Miles and a Fight: Major Samuel Peter Heintzelman's Journal of Texas and the Cortina War (1998) 12 exemplaren
A Wild and Vivid Land: An Illustrated History of the South Texas Border (1997) 12 exemplaren
Vaqueros in Blue and Gray (2000) 10 exemplaren
Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas (2007) 10 exemplaren
Mexican Texans in the Union Army (Southwestern Studies Series) (1986) 10 exemplaren
Desert Tiger: Captain Paddy Graydon and the Civil War in the Far Southwest (Southwestern Studies) (1992) 8 exemplaren
Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History (2004) 8 exemplaren
Juan Cortina and the Texas-Mexico Frontier 1859-1877 (Southwestern Studies) (1994) 8 exemplaren
Tejano Tiger : José de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico borderlands, 1823-1891 (2017) 8 exemplaren
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Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of… door Jerry Thompson
A workmanlike biography of a workmanlike general, Heintzelman's most significant duty before the Civil War was on the frontier in Arizona and Texas before his field service at 1st Manassas, the Peninsula and 2nd Manassas, after which the war passed him by. Apart from really being too worn out for intensive field service (the man was fifty-five years of age at the start of the war) and being associated with the Union failures of the early part of the war, Heintzelman's political moderation was another part of his fading away into backwater assignments.

While making good use of Heintzelman's papers and diary, and being acutely attuned to the political currents in the Army of the Potomac, I'll also admit that I'm a little disappointed that Thompson didn't engage in more of a summing up of how the man met the challenges of his life and times.… (meer)
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