The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 102, July 1998 - April, 1999 Page: 122
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STORI A A CAT
FIFTY MILES AND A FIGHT
MAJOR SAMUEL PETER HEINTZELMAN'S JOURNAL
OF TEXAS AND THE CORTINA WAR
Edited and with an introduction by Jerry Thompson
Fifty Miles and a Fight is a rare and dramatic firsthand
account of one of the most volatile and traumatic events in the
long history of Texas-the Cortina War in South Texas. It was
while Maj. Samuel Peter Heintzelman, one of the most cul-
tured, dedicated, and respected officers in the antebellum
frontier army, was at Camp Verde on September 28, 1859, that
a daring and charismatic thirty-five-year-old ranchero named
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina sent shock waves throughout Texas
by brazenly leading some seventy-five angry raiders into the
streets of Brownsville. Tired of a clique of Brownsville attor-
neys, resentful of men he accused of killing tejanos with
impunity, and determined to settle a
blood feud with bitter enemy
Adolphus Glavecke, Cortina initiated
a war that would reverberate north to
Austin and beyond to the halls of
Washington and Mexico City.
SHeintzelman's journal provides a
detailed and vivid account of the bat-
tles at El Ebonal and Rio Grande City
as well as glimpses into the filibuster-
ing activites of the shadowy Knights of
iii the Golden Circle, who were hoping
t to expand the Cortina War into a larger conflict that would
lead to the eventual annexation of Mexico and the creation of
a slave empire south of the Rio Grande. Heintzelman's
impressions of his senior commander, Col. Robert E. Lee, are
also noteworthy.
Jerry Thompson, dean of the College of Arts and
Humanities at Texas A&M International University at
Laredo, is among the best and most prolific historians of
the Civil War in the Southwest.
ISBN o-876 z-z6o-6. 6 x 9 inches, 4oo pp., illustrations, maps, index.
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