A highly readable account of this major turning point of the Civil War in the West.

In the newly acquired California and Southwest, Hispanics tried to keep their culture while becoming American. And on the East Coast, Hispanics who arrived along with millions of European immigrants plotted to liberate their homelands. The Civil War looks at Hispanics in the United States from the 1840s, after the end of the U.S.-Mexico war, up to the start of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Book jacket.

Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region with monthly and annual national summaries.