Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) camping to some extent

to some extent

test the limits of Federal endurance

desperately trying to maintain a challenging balancing act between the conflicting demands of various powerful forces

A unique example of photographic detective work in which the famous battle is re-created almost as if it were a contemporary news event

Proceeds from this volume will go to support the Ulysses S

Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) camping to some extentby 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