Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) Section- The Confederacy or would soon be

or would soon be

the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin

A dark sense of foreboding overshadows the beautiful island getaway when the guests play a New Year’s Resolutions game after dinner and one written resolution gleefully threatens to perform “the last and first death of the year

The veterans in Early’s force could almost imagine their flags flying above the White House

by John Reeves

Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) Section- The Confederacy or would soon beby Patrick Kelly Fischer (Author), Phillip S. Greenwalt (Author) A detailed account of the overlooked 1862 New Mexico Campaign and Confederate ambitions in the Southwest. In late July 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor and 258 Texas cavalrymen thundered into the small village of Mesilla, tucked along the Rio Grande River in the New Mexico Territory. They skirmished with U. S. Regulars seeking to retake the town and quickly forced them to retreat. It