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• The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
• Robert Wooster

During the past decade, Andrew E. Masich and Thomas W. Cutrer have joined Jerry D. Thompson in publishing new studies on the Civil War and the far Southwest. Megan Kate Nelson's The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West serves as an admirable addition to that growing field. Specialists will find most of the events familiar, but Nelson's book is distinguished because its approach—loosely framed around the experiences of a diverse set of nine individuals—humanizes the chaos wrought by the Civil War in New Mexico and Arizona.

Nelson has chosen her characters well, including several who will be recognizable to many readers. John R. Baylor established the short-lived Confederate Territory of Arizona and authorized the murder of adult Apaches and sale of their children into slavery under a flag of truce. Mangas Coloradas, war leader of Chihenne and Bedonkohu bands of Chiricahua Apaches, struggled with only mixed success to navigate the treacherous waters of the Civil War to improve the lot of his followers. As commander of the military Department of New Mexico, Brigadier General James Carleton organized punishing campaigns against Mescalero Apaches and Navajos that resulted in their removal to the dreaded Bosque Redondo reservation. Christopher "Kit" Carson, fabled frontiersman and scout, served as Carleton's field commander of choice.

More intriguing are those historical actors who have received less popular attention. Experiencing the brunt of the Carleton-Carson offensives was Juanita, fourth wife of Navajo war leader Manuelito, who did her best to care for her family and people amidst the army's scorched earth campaigns of 1863–64 and the miseries of life at the Bosque Redondo. Iowa-born Alonzo Ickis, working in the Colorado gold fields when the war broke out, fought for the Union at the Battle of Valverde. On the opposing side at that battle was William Davidson, a non-slaveholding lawyer from Texas later wounded at Glorieta Pass. Following the subsequent Confederate retreat to Santa Fe, Davidson and scores of other Texans were nursed to recovery through the efforts of Louisa Canby, wife of Colonel E. R. S. Canby, then Union commander of the region. Among her acquaintances in Santa Fe society was John Clark, appointed New Mexico's surveyor general in the early days of the Lincoln administration. Clark fled the region ahead of the Texas Confederate invasion of 1861–62 but returned to spearhead later surveys that reported favorably on the region's mineral and agricultural prospects.

Author of the provocative environmental and social history Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (University of Georgia Press, [End Page 487] 2012), Nelson skillfully weaves the lives of these men and women into the greater narrative of the Civil War in the Southwest. The Three-Cornered War is based on a wide array of primary sources (published as well as manuscript collections), and a solid command of secondary literature is revealed in its bibliography and endnote citations. Well-written and ingeniously constructed, the book serves as an excellent survey of the period and region; those readers particularly interested in Texas history will find most noteworthy the first half of the book, which tells the tragic saga of those who participated in Henry H. Sibley's ill-fated Confederate invasion of New Mexico.

审核人：

• 三角战争：梅根·凯特·纳尔逊（Megan Kate Nelson）的西战中的联盟，邦联和土著人民
• 罗伯特·伍斯特

在过去的十年中，安德鲁·马希奇（Andrew E. Masich）和托马斯·卡特勒（Thomas W. Cutrer）与杰里·汤普森（Jerry D. Thompson）一起发表了有关内战和西南地区的新研究。梅根·凯特·纳尔逊（Megan Kate Nelson）的“三角战争：西部大战中的联盟，邦联和土著人民”为这一不断发展的领域增添了令人钦佩的内容。专家们会发现大多数事件都是熟悉的，但是纳尔逊的书之所以与众不同，是因为它的方法（松散地围绕着九个人的不同经历进行了框架化）使新墨西哥州和亚利桑那州内战造成的混乱变得人性化。

纳尔逊（Nelson）精心挑选了她的角色，其中一些角色将为许多读者所认可。约翰·贝勒（John R. Baylor）建立了短暂的亚利桑那州同盟领土，并授权在休战旗下谋杀成年的阿帕奇人，并将其子女卖为奴隶。Chihenne和Chiricahua Apaches的Bedonkohu乐队的战争负责人Mangas Coloradas艰难地挣扎，在南北战争的阴险水域中航行，以改善他的众多追随者。作为新墨西哥州军事司令部司令，詹姆斯·卡尔顿准将组织了针对梅斯卡佩罗·阿帕奇和纳瓦霍斯的惩罚运动，最终将他们撤离了可怕的博斯克·雷东多（Bosque Redondo）保留地。著名的边防兼侦察员克里斯托弗·“基特”·卡森（Christopher“ Kit” Carson）担任卡尔顿（Carleton）的首选野战指挥官。

那些受到较少大众关注的历史演员更令人着迷。纳瓦霍人战争领导人曼纽利托（Manuelito）的第四任妻子胡安妮塔（Juanita）在卡尔顿-卡森（Carleton-Carson）的进攻中首当其冲，她在军队1863-64年的焦灼大地战役和波斯多·雷东多（Bosque Redondo）的痛苦生活中竭尽全力照顾家人和人民。战争爆发后，爱荷华州出生的阿隆佐·伊基斯（Alonzo Ickis）在科罗拉多州的金矿工作，他在瓦尔韦德战役中为联盟而战。在那场战斗的对面是威廉·戴维森，他是得克萨斯州的一位非奴隶制律师，后来在格洛列塔山口受伤。在随后的同盟国撤退到圣达菲之后，戴维森和其他数十名德克萨斯人在该地区联盟指挥官ERS Canby上校的妻子Louisa Canby的努力下被调养。在圣达菲社会的熟人中，约翰·克拉克（John Clark）在林肯政府成立初期就被任命为新墨西哥州的测量师。克拉克（Clark）在1861–62年得克萨斯州同盟入侵之前就逃离了该地区，但后来又带头进行了随后的调查，这些调查报告了该地区的矿产和农业前景。

纳尔逊（Nelson）撰写了挑衅性的环境和社会历史《毁灭国家：毁灭与美国内战》（乔治亚大学出版社，[End Page 487] 2012年），巧妙地将这些男人和女人的生活编织到了内战的更大篇章中。西南地区。三折战争该书以各种各样的主要资源为基础（已出版以及手稿的收藏），并且在其参考书目和尾注中都充分显示了对次要文献的掌握。这本书写得很好，设计精巧，是对时期和地区的极好的考察。那些对得克萨斯州历史特别感兴趣的读者会发现本书的前半部分最值得一提，它讲述了那些参加亨利·H·西布利（Henry H. Sibley）不幸的同盟入侵新墨西哥州的人们的悲惨传奇。