"Empire of Sand: The Struggle for the Southwest,1862" Topic

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Tango01

01 Aug 2015 3:07 p.m. PST

"Empire of Sand is the story of the Southern attempt, in 1862, to open a path to California, thus securing a port on the Pacific Ocean. The port would enable them to gain access to the gold fields of Colorado and California and expand the practice of slavery into the Southwest.

This quixotic undertaking was attempted by a few regiments of Texas cavalry, known as "the Army of the Southwest," commanded by the ambitious but ultimately incompetent Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley.

Marching out of San Antonio and across the forbidding deserts of West Texas, the Sibley Brigade…"
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