Recommended Reading List - Civil War in Desert Southwest (1861-1862)

A number of good books on the subject have surfaced recently, so I decided to revisit my reading list of recommended books dealing with the early war period in the desert Southwest, specifically the Confederate invasion of New Mexico and the U.S. government's response.

Good history of events leading up to campaign:

• The Exodus of Federal Forces from Texas, 1861 by J.J. Bowden (Eakin Press, 1986).

Best single-volume campaign history:

• Blood & Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest by Donald S. Frazier (Texas A&M University Press). I prefer Frazier over Hall and Kerby.

Best campaign history from U.S. perspective:

• Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico by Flint Whitlock. (University Press of Colorado, 2006).
  

Campaign in Arizona (Confederate perspective):

• Confederate Pathway to the Pacific: Major Sherod Hunter and Arizona Territory, C.S.A by L. Boyd Finch (Arizona Hist. Society, 1996).

Campaign in Arizona (U.S. perspective):

• The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865 by Andrew E. Masich (University of Oklahoma Press, 2006).

Best history of the Battle of Valverde:

• Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 by John M. Taylor (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1995).

Best history of the Battle of Glorieta:

• The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West (Texas A&m University Military History Series , No 61) by Don Alberts (Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1998).
• See also - The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Gettysburg in the West, March 26-28, 1862 by Thomas S. Edrington and John M. Taylor (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1998).

Good edited collections of primary source materials:

• New Mexico Territory during the Civil War: Wallen and Evans Inspection Reports, 1862-1863 ed. by Jerry D. Thompson (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2008).
• Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade ed. by Jerry D. Thompson (Texas A&M University Press, 2001).
• The Civil War in West Texas and New Mexico: The Lost Letterbook of Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley eds. Thompson and Wilson (Texas Western Press, 2001).
• When the Texans Came: Missing Records from the Civil War in the Southwest, 1861-1862 by John P. Wilson (University of New Mexico Press, 2001).
• Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journals of A.B. Peticolas ed. by Don E. Alberts (University of New Mexico Press, 1984).