In this powerful work of scholarship Josephy recounts the history of the "other" Civil War that raged on the largely unsettled Western frontier: of the U.S. army's brutal campaigns against the Plains Indians, of a Cherokee guerrilla leader who was the last Confederate general to surrender--two months after Appomattox, of the Yankee armada that foundered in the bayous of Louisiana.
"In this important new book...Mr. Josephy again serves justice with his clear-eyed, even-handed scholarship....[A] powerfully wrought narrative."--The New York Times Book Review
Table of Contents
Part One: The Glory Road to New Mexico 1. "Texas...Texas" 2. Up the Rio Grande 3. Gettysburg of the West
Part Two: Anguish of the Northern Plains 4. Red Morning on the Minnesota 5. Columns of Vengeance
Part Three: The Ordeal of General Banks 6. Of Ships and Mud 7. "The Earth Will Shake and the Wool Fly"
Part Four: War on the Western Trails 8. Agents of Manifest Destiny 9. The Iron Fist
Part Five: Wasteland 10. The Way to Pea Ridge 11. Fading Trumpets
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., a leading historian of the American West, was the author of many award-winning books, including The Patriot Chiefs, The Indian Heritage of America, Now That the Buffalo's Gone, The Civil War in the American West, 500 Nations, and A Walk Toward Oregon. He was a vice president and editor of American Heritage magazine, the founding chairman of the board of trustees of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and president of the Western History Association. Josephy died in the fall of 2005.
In this powerful work of scholarship Josephy recounts the history of the "other" Civil War that raged on the largely unsettled Western frontier: of the U.S. army's brutal campaigns against the Plains Indians, of a Cherokee guerrilla leader who was the last Confederate general to surrender--two months after Appomattox, of the Yankee armada that foundered in the bayous of Louisiana.
"In this important new book...Mr. Josephy again serves justice with his clear-eyed, even-handed scholarship....[A] powerfully wrought narrative."--The New York Times Book Review
Table of Contents
Part One: The Glory Road to New Mexico 1. "Texas...Texas" 2. Up the Rio Grande 3. Gettysburg of the West
Part Two: Anguish of the Northern Plains 4. Red Morning on the Minnesota 5. Columns of Vengeance
Part Three: The Ordeal of General Banks 6. Of Ships and Mud 7. "The Earth Will Shake and the Wool Fly"
Part Four: War on the Western Trails 8. Agents of Manifest Destiny 9. The Iron Fist
Part Five: Wasteland 10. The Way to Pea Ridge 11. Fading Trumpets
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., a leading historian of the American West, was the author of many award-winning books, including The Patriot Chiefs, The Indian Heritage of America, Now That the Buffalo's Gone, The Civil War in the American West, 500 Nations, and A Walk Toward Oregon. He was a vice president and editor of American Heritage magazine, the founding chairman of the board of trustees of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and president of the Western History Association. Josephy died in the fall of 2005.
