The Battle of Glorieta: Gettysburg of the West

Well-written story of the 1862 campaign in New Mexico, with emphasis the battle of Glorieta Pass. Excellent tactical maps in sufficient numbers. Nice Texas A & M edition. Small Union and Confederate armies operating in a wilderness at the end of very tenuous logistical communications. John Chivington, later a villain at Sand Creek, performs honorably here, and is instrumental in the Union victory. Author makes a convincing case that Glorieta was the "Gettysburg of the West". A "small" battle compared to Chickamauga or Antietam, but not if you were in it!

Go discussion of the non main stream battle of the War Between the State well research. Jim Lynch

I really enjoyed Alberts' well researched account of the climactic battle that doomed Southern ambitions in New Mexico and Confederate ambitions in the West. The book is well written and easy to read. Alberts is very familiar with the battlefields and uses maps to show troop positions and movements in the battles in Glorieta Pass. The book includes a good introduction of the campaign and troop movements to the area as well as the aftermath and southern retreat to Southern New Mexico. An Order of Battle and extensive end notes are helpfull and he even gives brief accounts of the fates of the major players in the campaign.