CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Foreword by Richard J. Sommers

Introduction

        ONE   A Useful and Agreeable Addition

       TWO   The Walking Whiskey Keg

     THREE   I Have the Honor to Enclose My Resignation

      FOUR   I Considered Our Case Hopeless

        FIVE   Men Who Have Braved the Wilderness

          SIX   Hurry Up If You Want a Fight

   SEVEN   All the Panoply of Glorious War

     EIGHT   Considerable Firing on Both Sides

       NINE   The Men Are Brimfull of Fight

         TEN   The Strife Was Terrific

 ELEVEN   A Scourge to Rebellious Spirits

 TWELVE   The Birds of Liberty Betoken Victory

    THIRTEEN   The God of Battles Is With Us

  FOURTEEN   The Enemy Is Upon Us

 FIFTEEN   My God! How Our Men Fought

SIXTEEN   They Hate Us Intensely

SEVENTEEN   They Have Abandoned Everything

    EPILOGUE   The Boasted Valor of Texans

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index