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the Confederate Attempt to Seize Arizona and New Mexico (Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1964), p. 24
(hereafter cited as Barr, Porter's Account).
78. Official Records , Series 1 , Vol. 1 , p. 606,
Volume 4, pp. 55-56, 61.
79. Otis E. Young, The West of Philip St. George
Cooke, 1809-1895 (Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1955), pp. 324-325.
80. Ibid., p. 322; Ralph Paul Bieber (ed.), Exploring Southwestern Trails, 1846-1854, Vol. 7 (Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1938), p. 29. In the Peninsular Campaign Stuart’s cavalry rode com- pletely around the attacking Union Forces, includ- ing his father-in-law. Cooke was unjustly criticized for not catching Stewart even though he was forbid- den to separate his cavalry from an infantry column. Stewart would die at Yellow Tavern in 1864.
81. Much has been made of Canby and Sibley having been brothers-in-law. This was not true, al- though it is possible that Sibley married a cousin of Canby’s wife.
82.LosAngelesStar,August3,1861,p.2:5,copying the Mesilla Times of June 23, 1861.
83. William Aloysius Keleher, Timhoil in New Mexico, 1846-1868 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982), pp. 147-148 (hereafter cited as Keleher, Turmoil)-, Lee Myers, “Military
Establishments in Southwestern New Mexico: Step- ping Stones to Settlement,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 43 (Jan., 1968), p. 18 (hereafter cited as Myers, “Stepping Stones”).
84.LosAngelesStar,August3,1861,p.1:5,copying the Mesilla Times of June 30, 1861.
85. Mills, El Paso, p. 42.
86. Keleher, Turmoil, p. 148.
87. Hattie M. Anderson, “With the Confederates
in New Mexico During the Civil War - Memoirs of Hank Smith,” The Panhandle— Plains Historical Review, Vol. 2 (1929), p. 65-68 (hereafter cited as Anderson, “Hank Smith”).
88. Mills, El Paso, pp. 44-47; Porter, “Letters” (Spring, 1972), pp. 11, 16, (Summer, 1972), p. 74. On two occasions, October 25 and December 3, 1861, Mills wrote his father admitting that he was employed by Major Lynde as a spy. In a later letter, he denied this.
89. Mills,ElPaso,pp.47-50;DanL.Thrapp, Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches (Norman: Univer- sity of Oklahoma Press, 1974), p. 75 (hereafter cited as Thrapp, Victorio).
90. Keleher, Turmoil, p. 147; Hall, Sibley’s, p. 76; Martin Hardwick Hall, The Confederate Army of New Mexico (Austin: Presidial Press, 1978), pp. 19- 20 (hereafter cited as Hall, Confederate Army)-, Ac- cording to the New Orleans Daily Picayune, August 6, 1861, p. 1:6, copying the Mesilla Times of July 7, the Confederates would shortly have 6 companies of regulars and 1 of El Paso County volunteers for a total of 640 men.
91. Hall, Confederate Army, pp. 345-346.
92. San Antonio Herald, September 13, 1862, p. 2:2; Mills, El Paso, p. 39.
93. Porter, “Letters” (Spring, 1972), pp. 11-13. Mills claimed in the same letter that he and Baylor were friends and that compared to Hart, Baylor was a Saint. Hart in the meantime, according to Joseph Allen Stout, Jr., Apache Lightning (New York: Ox- ford University Press, 1974), p. 38, had cut his poten- tial losses from Union reprisals by selling a wagon train he had been operating between El Paso and Santa Fe to Juan Ruiz of Albuquerque for $5,000.
94. Mills,MyStory,p.72.
95. John Philip Wilson, “Retreat to the Rio Grande: The Report of Captain Isaiah N. Moore,” Rio Grande History, Vol. 2 (Winter, 1974-75), pp. 4-7
(hereafter cited as Wilson, “Retreat”).
96. Ibid. Moore later claimed that Grant re-
quested his mills and warehouses be burned to prevent potential use by the Confederates. Lord’s report contradicted this and is probably closer to the truth.
97. Ibid.-, Pedersen,“AYankee,”pp. 133-34. Grant’s concern was not without foundation; it would require until January 25, 1898, to obtain a partial settlement for the stores burned at Tucson.
98. Wilson “Retreat,” pp. 4-7; Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 9, p. 708. It is probable that he was a relative of E. J. White killed near Mesilla while en route to Fort Buchanan.
99. Wilson, “Retreat,” p. 7.
100. Ibid., pp. 5, 8.
101. Hall, Confederate Army, p. 20.
102. Stanley Crocchiola, The Civil War in New
Mexico (Denver: The World Press, Inc., 1960), p. 135 (hereafter cited as Crocchiola, Civil War); Mesilla Times, July 27, 1861, p. 1:3.
103.Keleher,Turmoil,pp.148-149;MesillaTimes, July 27, 1861, p. 1.
104. Keleher, Turmoil, p. 150; Mesilla Times, July 27, 1861, p. 1.
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