| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi. By Richard Lowe. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xvi, 339 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2933-X.)

Maj. Gen. John G. Walker's Texas Infantry Division, consisting entirely of units from the Lone Star State, had a memorable Civil War record despite not seeing its first combat until the Vicksburg campaign. Caught for much of the conflict in a tug-of-war between generals Richard Taylor and Edmund Kirby Smith, it came to be known as the Greyhound Division for its long marches and countermarches, which totaled nearly thirty-five hundred miles. The Greyhounds' most notable feat came during the Red River campaign of 1864, when, during the span of seventy days, they marched over nine hundred miles through Louisiana and Arkansas and fought superbly in three pitched battles—Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry. Any historian would be hard pressed to do justice to such a unit, but Richard Lowe has more than met the task in this superb volume.

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