The express rider galloped through the dusty streets of Santa Fe on the last day of July 1861, dismounting in front of Union army headquarters. He handed lieutenant colonel Edward R.S. Canby a dispatch and the Mexican War veteran quickly scanned the report. Canby then penned a note to William Chapman, the commander at Fort Union. “The express has just been received from Major Lynde,” he wrote, “reporting an engagement with the Texans near Fort Fillmore.” The dispatch bore the news that “Lynde has abandoned and burned Fort Fillmore and was moving in the direction of Fort Stanton. I do...
...MoreBook Brian Drake (2015) The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War.
Chapter
John C. Inscoe;
(2015)
“The Strength of the Hills”: Representations of Appalachian Wilderness as Civil War Refuge
(/isis/citation/CBB591936630/)
Book
Brian Drake;
(2015)
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
(/isis/citation/CBB641480801/)
Chapter
Paul S. Sutter;
(2015)
“Waving the Muddy Shirt”
(/isis/citation/CBB792138285/)
Chapter
Kenneth W. Noe;
(2015)
Fateful Lightning: The Significance of Weather and Climate to Civil War History
(/isis/citation/CBB769919988/)
Chapter
Lisa M. Brady;
(2015)
Nature as Friction: Integrating Clausewitz into Environmental Histories of the Civil War
(/isis/citation/CBB221825289/)
Chapter
Aaron Sachs;
(2015)
Stumps in the Wilderness
(/isis/citation/CBB467169931/)
Chapter
Brian Allen Drake;
(2015)
New Fields of Battle: Nature, Environmental History, and the Civil War
(/isis/citation/CBB154844171/)
Chapter
Drew A. Swanson;
(2015)
War Is Hell, So Have a Chew: The Persistence of Agroenvironmental Ideas in the Civil War Piedmont
(/isis/citation/CBB446832632/)
Chapter
Timothy Johnson;
(2015)
Reconstructing the Soil: Emancipation and the Roots of Chemical-Dependent Agriculture in America
(/isis/citation/CBB997002896/)
Chapter
Mart A. Stewart;
(2015)
Walking, Running, and Marching into an Environmental History of the Civil War
(/isis/citation/CBB943411511/)
Chapter
Timothy Silver;
(2015)
Yancey County Goes to War: A Case Study of People and Nature on Home Front and Battlefield, 1861–1865
(/isis/citation/CBB140452060/)
Chapter
Kathryn Shively Meier;
(2015)
“The Man Who Has Nothing to Lose”: Environmental Impacts on Civil War Straggling in 1862 Virginia
(/isis/citation/CBB802538758/)
Book
Brady, Lisa M.;
(2012)
War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
(/isis/citation/CBB001212118/)
Thesis
Thomson, Jennifer Christine;
(2013)
From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present
(/isis/citation/CBB001567540/)
Article
Brady, Lisa M.;
(2005)
The Wilderness of War: Nature and Strategy in the American Civil War
(/isis/citation/CBB000740847/)
Book
Lewis, Michael L.;
(2007)
American Wilderness: A New History
(/isis/citation/CBB000930098/)
Book
Morin, Karen M.;
(2011)
Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 1860--1890
(/isis/citation/CBB001200648/)
Book
Ingram, Annie Merrill;
(2007)
Coming into Contact: Explorations In Ecocritical Theory and Practice
(/isis/citation/CBB001035376/)
Book
Gisela Parak;
(2016)
Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s
(/isis/citation/CBB713328321/)
Book
Sackman, Douglas Cazaux;
(2010)
A Companion to American Environmental History
(/isis/citation/CBB001035795/)
Be the first to comment!