Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) Section- The Confederacy by John Reeves

by John Reeves

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

we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness

A member of the 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division

the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin

Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) Section- The Confederacy by John Reevesby 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