Runner-up, 2019 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Book Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association (TOMFRA) Despite the strategic importance of the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the Civil War, the two battles fought there--the first (September 1864) and the second (May 1865) battles of Palmito Ranch--have largely faded from public memory even as the second battle earned the title "Last Land Battle of...