I first read about Louisa Hawkins Canby in the records of Confederate Texans. She was married to the Union colonel…
When John Baylor invaded New Mexico Territory on behalf of the Confederacy in the summer of 1861, the Chiricahua Apache…
When I started thinking about this project, I knew I wanted to begin The Three-Cornered War with the Confederate invasion of New…
On a chilly day in December 1861, an Iowa farmer and Colorado gold miner named Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis put on…
Why do so few historians talk about the American Civil War in the West? And by “the West” I don’t…