Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Chapter 1. Questions of War on a Distant River
• Chapter 2. Border Cotton
• Chapter 3. Efforts to End a War
• Chapter 4. "Nothing Left to Us but to Fight"
• Chapter 5. An Unexpected Advance
• Chapter 6. The First Day's Fight
• Chapter 7. Fighting to No Purpose
• Chapter 8. Triumph and Disaster
• Chapter 9. A Harried Retreat
• Chapter 10. The Last Shot
• Chapter 11. Prisoners, Flags, Paroles, and Peace
• Chapter 12. The Blame for Failure
• Chapter 13. Court-Martial
• Chapter 14. Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Order of Battle
• Appendix 2. Barrett's First Report
• Appendix 3. Barrett's Supplemental Report
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Jeffrey Wm Hunt is Chief Curator of the Admiral Nimitz National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas.