| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3 | The History Cooperative

*Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico.* By Flint Whitlock. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xix + 293 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Had the Colorado Volunteers not entered the Civil War in New Mexico Territory, the conflict in the desert Southwest might have been radically different. It is even conceivable the Confederate Army of New Mexico could have taken California, thus acquiring valuable ports and creating a transcontinental Confederacy ripe for diplomatic recognition from Great Britain and France.	1
World War II historian Flint Whitlock tells the story of the "Pikes Peakers" in his Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico. The subtitle of the book is a bit misleading, however, since Whitlock concentrates on the Colorado Volunteers and not the predominantly Hispanic New Mexico Volunteers or the army regulars who were also critical to the defense of the territory. Even when the Nuevo Mexicanos are mentioned, they are seen through the ethnocentric eyes of the regular army officers who consistently used the natives as scapegoats.	. . .

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