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Foreword Peter S. Carmichael xi
Acknowledgments xiii
General Editor's Note xv
Introduction Gary D. Joiner xvii
James A. Jarratt and the Consolidated Crescent Regiment in the Red River Campaign of 1864 Gary D. Joiner 1
A Vermont Soldier's Experience at the Battle of Mansfield Gary D. Joiner 47
Lieutenant Edward Cunningham: A Kirby Smith Loyalist Complains about Richard Taylor Gary D. Joiner 65
Private Julius Knapp, U.S.A.: A Union Soldier's Point of View Gary D. Joiner Jimmy H. Sandefur 97
Confederate Letters Gary D. Joiner Jimmy H. Sandefur Thomas A. Pressly Nancy B. Wilson Molly Wiggins Monica R. Pels Dyson Nickles Ann Turk Steven Mayeux Bryan James Maedgen Allan C. Richard Jr. 123
Union Letters Gary D. Joiner Jimmy H. Sandefur Tara Z. Laver Monica R. Pels 171
Miss Sidney Harding: A Daughter of Privilege Flees Northward Gary D. Joiner Cheryl H. White 205
Joseph Pitty Couthouy: The Death of a Sailor-Scientist Gary D.Joiner Jimmy H. Sandefur 219
J. E. Hewitt: Commemorating Mansfield Gary D. Joiner 231
The Battle of Mansfield Song Marilyn Murrell Segura Joiner 259
Orders of Battle for the Red River Campaign 265
Mississippi Squadron Vessels 281
Red River Campaign Time Line 285
Julius L. Knapp Diary, January and February 1864 297
Sidney Harding Diary Entries before March 1864 and after the Campaign 309
Bibliography 321
Contributors 333
Index 337
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reviewed Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864 on March 15, 2020 Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson & the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides was a powerfully written and meticulously researched tale of the American West primarily from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War when President Polk's vision of Manifest Destiny was the ideological vision of the United States of America sweeping from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Having grown up in Colorado, New Mexico and California, I loved this book not only for its rich history but for its vivid descriptions of the southwest.
"They all had Spanish names and had had them since before the pilgrims sailed to Plymouth Rock: The Sandias. Manzanos. Ortiz. Jemez. Los Cerillos. Sangre de Cristos. San Mateos. Atalaya. Some seemed so close they could plucked as effortlessly as pendulous fruit, others more than a hundred miles off, thin blue phantoms rising from the Navajo country in the hazy west."
"The sagebrush gave way to cornfields and sheep pastures and then scattered houses, and finally the men dropped down to the somber capital--the Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi. Although it had a fabled name with a venerable history--it was founded in 1609--Santa Fe was not a town that sought to impress anyone, numbering at most seven thousand inhabitants."
But at the heart of this saga is Christopher "Kit" Carson who was an integral part of this story. "There was something uncanny about Carson, in the way he popped up from the shadows and impressed his name on the scenes of history. . . . he did have a curious knack for making himself present at the critical instant. Whenever an expedition was in trouble--real trouble--he was there to bail it out."
It was also the chilling tale of the Navajo nation who found themselves unwilling participants in the last stages of Manifest Destiny. "It was not a single migration, but a series of them. . . But taken all together, it was a forced relocation of biblical proportions, one of the largest in American history--second only to the Trail of Tears of the Cherokees."
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