| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
94018763 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0826316328 |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us-nm |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
AJMA |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
E473.4 |
| Item number |
.T38 1995 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
973.731 Tay |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
973.731 Tay |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Taylor, John McLellan |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Bloody Valverde |
| Remainder of title |
a Civil War battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
John Taylor |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Albuquerque |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of New Mexico Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1995 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 185 p. |
| Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions |
27 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"Published in cooperation with the Historical Society of New Mexico." |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Origins -- Prelude to a fight -- Opening gambits -- The battle is joined -- Apparent victory -- Change of command -- The tide turns -- The field is lost -- Pyrrhic victory -- Retrospective. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
When Jefferson Davis commissioned Henry H. Sibley a brigadier general in the Confederate army in the summer of 1861, he gave him a daring mission: to capture the gold fields of Colorado and California for the South. Their grand scheme, premised on crushing the Union forces in New Mexico and then moving unimpeded north and west, began to unravel along the sandy banks of the Rio Grande late in the winter of 1862.; At Valverde ford, in a day-long battle between about 2,600 Texan Confederates and some 3,800 Union troops stationed at Fort Craig, the Confederates barely prevailed. However, the cost exacted in men and materiel doomed them as they moved into northern New Mexico.; Carefully reconstructed in this book is the first full account of what happened on both sides of the line before, during, and after the battle. On the Confederate side, a drunken Sibley turned over command to Colonel Tom Green early in the afternoon. Battlefield maneuvers included a disastrous lancer charge by cavalry - the only one during the entire Civil War. The Union army, under the cautious Colonel Edward R.S.; Canby, fielded a superior number of troops, the majority of whom were Hispanic New Mexican volunteers. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
68559 |
| 648 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
Valverde, Battle of (Val Verde, New Mexico : 1862) |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Source of heading or term |
New Mexico |
| Geographic name |
Val Verde |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |