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(hereafter cited as Hall, Sibley’s). There was no record of Skillman’s return, but he was soon back on the Rio Grande in the Confederate service.
58. New Orleans Daily Picayune October 19, 1861, ,
p. 1:6, copying the Mesilla Times of August 10 or 17. 59. Mesilla Times, August 24, 1861, p. 2. The 19th was a Monday and the previous Fridays were the
16th and 23rd.
60. Austerman, Sharps Rifles, p. 181. It would
seem here that, if things had worked out, Giddings would have been paid for the April to August period by both government mail services.
61. San Antonio Express, May 4, 1902, p. 22:3.
62. San Francisco Herald, February 6, 1861, p. 3:3, copying the Mesilla Times, January 24, 1861.
63. New Orleans Daily Picayune, March 2, 1861, p. 6:1, copying the Mesilla Times of January 24.
64. MarjorieTisdaleWolcott,(ed.),PioneerNotes from the Diaries ofJudge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875 (Los Angeles: Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott, 1929), pp.
250-254 (hereafter cited as Wolcott, Notes).
65. F.S.Donnell,“TheConfederateTerritoryof Arizona, from Official Sources,” New Mexico His- torical Review, Vol. 17 (Jan., 1942), p. 150; Odie B. Faulk, Destiny Road (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1973), pp. 131-132 (hereafter cited as Faulk, Destiny)-,MesillaTimes, March2,p.2:2,3,March30, 1861, p. 1:3-5. According to Rex W. Strickland, “P. T. Herbert: Ante-Bellum Resident of El Paso,” Password, Vol. 5 (Apr., 1960), pp. 44-48, Herbert had served a term in the Thirty-Fourth Congress (1855-57) for California before his constituents ostracized him for killing Patrick Keating, a waiter
in Willard’s Hotel in Washington, D. C., in self defense.
70. Ibid., pp. 63-64. Reeve could not have been aware that Cameron had replaced Joseph Holt on March 5. Although Anson Mills commented on many of the events that took place in the turbulent early 1860s, including the fortunes and misfortunes that befell his brothers Emmett and W. W., much of what he had to say was based on hearsay and his personal opinions. Unfortunately, he was many times in error. Mills became a General in the im- pending Civil War and later made millions from his invention for weaving military gear.
71. Mesilla Times, May 11, 1861, p. 2:2.
72. Ibid. One wonders whether some of this am- munition was used against the Fort Fillmore troops about 10 weeks later.
73. War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Ar- mies 70 Vols. in 128 parts (Washington: United States War Department, 1880-1901), Series 1, Vol. 1, pp. 514-515 (hereafter cited as Official Records). Twiggs’ claim regarding ill health was substantiated whenhepassedawayonJuly15,1862.
74. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), pp. 489-490 (hereafter cited as Warner, Blue. Sumner would be the oldest Corps commander in the Civil War. In spite of this fact he was criticized, after the battle of Sharpsburg in September 1862, for leading his troops like a Colonel of Cavalry rather than directing their efforts from a more safe head- quarters.
75. Joycelyn J. Bowden, The Exodus of Federal Forcesfrom Texas, 1861 (Austin: Eakin Press, 1986), p. 38; Max L. Heyman, Jr., Prudent Solder, A Biog- raphy of Major General E. R. S. Canby, 1817-1873: His Military Service in the Indian Campaigns, in the
Endnotes
66. Faulk, Destiny, p. 137.
67.Ibid.,p.130;LynnIrwinPerrigo,TheAmerican MexicanWar,inCalifornia,NewMexico,Utah,and
Southwest: Its Peoples and Cultures (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971), p. 227 (hereafter cited as Perrigo, Southwest).
68. EmilyChaseGiddingsandEmmie[Giddings] Wheatley Mahon, “The Jackass Trail,” Password, Vol. 2 (Aug., 1957), pp. 94-95, indicated that two ash trees at the corner of El Paso Street were used as community bulletin boards.
69. Anson Mills, My Story (Washington: Anson Mills, 1918), pp. 60-62 (hereafter cited as Mills, My Story). Mills claimed in later years that his was one of the only two votes cast against secession; if so, his brotherW.W.musthavebeentheother.
Oregon; in the Civil War, in the Trans-Mississippi West, and as Military Governor in the Post-War South (Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1959), p. 136.
76. Leon Claire Metz, Fort Bliss: An Illustrated Histoiy (El Paso: Mangan Books, 1981), p. 29 (hereafter cited as Metz, Fort Bliss). San Antonio
Alamo Express, April 20, 1861, p. 2:6, copying the Mesilla Times, April 6, 1861. According to Warner, Blue, p. 142, William Hemsley Emory was the only officer in Confederate territory to have brought out his troops without the loss of a man.
77. AlwynBarr(ed.),CharlesPorter’sAccountof
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