SIBLEY’S NEW MEXICO CAMPAIGN (Part the First)
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| David Emmanuel Twiggs (1790-1862) |
In which we set the stage for Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign by discussing Texas’s secession from the Union in February, 1861 and looking at “Baylor’s Buffalo Hunt” (May-July, 1861).
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| John Robert Baylor (1822-1894) |
Our book recommendation for this episode is The Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
“Marvelous, original… that great, adventurous, little-known side of the Civil War is all here for the first time: the clash of North and South set in the immense space of the West and peopled with some of the most vivid characters of that vivid time.” ~ David McCullough
Listen to Episode 96: NewMexicoPartFirst