Edward T. Cotham

This "beautifully written . . . and meticulously researched" Civil War history vividly recounts one of the most decisive battles fought in Texas (Civil War News).   Jefferson Davis once said the Battle of Sabine Pass was "more remarkable than the battle at Thermopylae." But unlike the Spartans, who succumbed to overwhelming Persian forces at Thermopylae more than two thousand years before, the Confederate underdogs triumphed in a battle that...