From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Overawing the Indians: Major Steen’s Futile Pursuit of the Apaches in 1850

June 26, 2008

The editor of Santa Fe Gazette of 5 March 1853, pondered, “How can a Dragoon who, with his arms and accoutrements weighing 250 pounds, mounted on a half starved browken down horse be expected to catch an Indian mounted upon his fleet little pony, sooner than an Infantryman loaded down with his musket, knapsack, his [...]

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A Death in the Family: The Letters of Maj. Lloyd Beall to Bvt. Maj. Benjamin Beall 1846

June 20, 2008

The following article has been taken from “Military Collector & Historian: Journal of the Company of Military Historians”, Summer 2008, Vol. 60, No. 2.

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Banner Article on Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales

June 8, 2008

Philip Ferguson, a newspaper reporter in civilian life, wrote in his journal that a —œday or two after the battle [of Santa Cruz de Rosales] I found an old press and types, and issued one number of a paper called the Santa Cruz Banner, containing Colonel Ralls—™ [sic] and Colonel Lane—™s reports and an [unofficial] [...]

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RECRUITMENT ADVERTISEMENT

June 1, 2008

The Army maintained recruiting stations through out the Midwest, South and East. The New York Sun for March 13, 1855, featured the following advertisement seeking troops for mounted and infantry regiments:

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