The Yankee invasion of Texas - Townsend, Stephen A. (Texas A&M University Press, 2006)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-182) and index
To plant the flag in Texas -- The finest campaign of the war -- Fall back and save the cotton -- The Red River beckons -- The cavalry of the West -- Troubles south of the border -- The war ends in Texas -- War and the lower Rio Grande valley
Stephen A. Townsend carefully traces the actions -- and inaction -- of the Union forces from the capture of Brownsville by troops under Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, through the advance up the coast with the help of Union Loyalists, until General Ulysses S. Grant ordered the abandonment of all of Texas except Brownsville in March 1864