TY  - GEN
T1  - Confederate general of the West : Henry Hopkins Sibley
A1  - Thompson, Jerry D.
LA  - English
PP  - College Station
PB  - Texas A & M University Press
YR  - 1996
ED  - 1st Texas A & M University Press ed.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44962417
AB  - Had Henry Hopkins Sibley and his troops succeeded in taking New Mexico, author Jerry Thompson argues, "the entire history of the Southern Confederacy might have been radically altered." In Confederate General of the West, Thompson portrays the life and career of a soldier whose character flaws and leadership weaknesses stood in stark contrast to his sometime military successes and mechanical ingenuity. Civil War scholars, students, and enthusiasts will welcome this new paperback edition of Sibley's biography. As the Utah Historical Quarterly noted after the book first appeared in 1987, Jerry Thompson's scholarship "has provided us with a view of nineteenth-century American military life that rarely surfaces - a comprehensive picture of the mediocre, inept officer who, when thrust into positions of great pressure and responsibility, unwittingly produces great carnage.... Perhaps the greatest value of the book is the extent to which it illustrates the impact of frontier isolation ... on the contentious behavior of the army's officer corps during the antebellum period."
OP  - 399
NO  - Originally published: Henry Hopkins Sibley. Natchitoches, La. : Northwestern State University Press, 1987.
CN  - E467.1.S56 T48 1996eb
SN  - 0585177651
SN  - 9780585177656
SN  - 0890967059
SN  - 9780890967058
KW  - Sibley, Henry Hopkins, : 1816-1886.
KW  - Confederate States of America. : Army : Biography.
KW  - Sibley, Henry Hopkins, : 1816-1886
KW  - Confederate States of America. : Army
KW  - Generals : Confederate States of America : Biography.
KW  - New Mexico : History : Civil War, 1861-1865 : Campaigns.
KW  - United States : History : Civil War, 1861-1865 : Campaigns.
KW  - Généraux : États confédérés d'Amérique : Biographies.
KW  - Nouveau-Mexique : Histoire : 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) : Campagnes et batailles.
KW  - États-Unis : Histoire : 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) : Campagnes et batailles.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Historical.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - Generals
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - New Mexico
KW  - United States
KW  - United States : Confederate States of America
KW  - Regions & Countries - Americas.
KW  - History & Archaeology.
KW  - United States - General.
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Confederate States of America : Army : Biography
KW  - Generals : Confederate States of America : Biography
KW  - New Mexico : History : Civil War, 1861-1865 : Campaigns
KW  - Sibley, Henry Hopkins : 1816-1886
KW  - United States : History : Civil War, 1861-1865 : Campaigns
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -