Attack and Counterattack now online

[TRK]

Somewhere here I believe I posted a link to a on online, digitized version of Joseph M. Nance's After San Jacinto, a massive study of the 1836-41 phase of the Federalist War in northern Mexico.

Recently, the Texas State Historical Association posted Nance's followup volume, Attack and Counter-Attack, online at the link below. This book is a fantastically detailed study of the Texas-Mexican border war in 1842, leading up to the organization of the Somervell Expedition. It includes great accounts of the Vasquez and Woll raids, which twice in 1842 recaptured San Antonio de Bexar; also covered is the Battle of Salado.

tshaonline.org/supsites/attack/mn_cont.html

[sloanrodgers]

Ugh!!!! Too late. I bought Attack and Counterattack a couple weeks ago at the notorious Austin
Book and Paper Show. Seriously, I'm glad I have finally added it to my other Nance classics, After
San Jacinto and Dare-Devils All, The Texas Mier Expedition. I highly recommend all of his books and
urge folks to buy them if you can find a copy. Nance tells great stories and he gives copious notes.

[mustanggray]

I knew about the online Attack and Counterattack but I'll have to look up the online After san Jacinto. I've read After San Jacinto and bits of Attack and Counterattack and I encourage everyone I can to read Nance's books. When the footnotes are as good as some books out there now you know it's a good book!!!

[kymw]

Thanks for the link to Attack and Counterattack. Just at the right moment, I needed to access this book and was about to jump in my car and head for the San Antonio Public Library. You saved me a trip and obout two hours! I was verifying some information about the Elijah Stapp family.