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For decades before the Civil Warfare, Southern writers and warriors had been urging the occupation and development of the American Southwest. Once the rift between North and South had been finalized in secession, the Confederacy relocated to extend their customs to the western world - a long-sought goal that were frustrated by northern states. It had been the sentiment among Southerners and especially Texans that Mexico must be rescued from indolent inhabitants and awarded the great things about North american civilization. Bloodstream and Treasure, written in a readable narrative style that belies the thorough research behind it, instructs the story of the Confederacy's ambitious plan to prolong a Confederate empire across the continent. Led by Lieutenant Colonel John R. Baylor, later a governor of Arizona, and General H. H. Sibley, Texan troops trekked from San Antonio to Fort Bliss in El Paso, then north along the Rio Grande to Santa Fe. Fighting with each other both Apaches and Government soldiers, the half-trained, undisciplined military satisfied success at the Battle of Val Verde and defeat at the Battle of Apache Canyon. Finally, the Texans received the Battle of Glorieta Go away, only to lose their supply train - and finally the advertising campaign. Pursued and dispirited, the Confederates empty their dream of empire and retreated to El Paso and San Antonio. Frazier has used previously untapped key resources, allowing him to provide new interpretations of the famous Civil Warfare fights in the Southwest. Using narratives of veterans of the advertising campaign and standard Confederate and Union documents, the writer explains how this apparently far-fetched fantasy of building a Confederate empire was an important area of the Confederate strategy. Armed forces historians will be challenged to change traditional views of Confederate imperial ambitions. Generalists will be attracted into the attractive saga of the troops' doubts, despair, and battles to survive.
