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105. Barr, Porter’s Account p. 25; Mesilla Times, August 3, 1861, n.p.
106. Keleher, Turmoil, p. 218.
107. William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston Embracing His Ser- vices in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879), pp. 262-280 (hereafter cited as Johnston, A. S. Johnston)-, Most of the men’s names can be found in the New Orleans Bee, August 26, 1861, p. 2:4, copying the Mesilla
Times of August 3, 1861. Only 31 names are listed, but the omission of “Ran” Randolf, Johnston’s manumitted former slave, and guide Dr. Carman Frazee make up the proper number.
108. Johnston, A. S. Johnston, pp. 279-280; The moon was in a waning quarter at the time. Accord- ing to Gary W. Kronk, Comets: A Descriptive Catalog (Hillside, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, 1984), pp. 1, 51, this was Tebbutt’s Comet, frequent- ly, and for obvious reasons, called the Great Comet of 1861. The moon would be full again on July 2.
109. Johnston, A. S. Johnston, pp. 282-283.
110. Ibid., pp. 284-285. This author claimed that Johnston’s party passed Dragoon Springs only 36 hours ahead of a task force sent by General Canby to intercept them.
111. Ibid., p. 285.
112. Ibid., p. 291.
113. Ibid., pp. 285-288; Anderson, “Indian Fight-
ing,”, p. 105. After missing the interception of the Fort Buchanan troops, Johnston continued toward Richmond and his appointment with death on the Shiloh battlefield on April 6, 1862, as one of the 10,694 Confederate casualties.
114. Anderson, “Hank Smith,” pp. 82-88. 115.Ibid.,p.88;Wilson,“Retreat,”,p.8.
116. Wilson, “Retreat,” p. 8.
117. Anderson, “Hank Smith,” p. 88; Mesilla
Times, August 24, 1861, p. 2:1.
118. Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 4, pp. 20-21. 119. Randy Steffen, The Frontier, the Mexican War,
the Civil War, the Indian Wars, 1851-1880 Vol. 2 of The Horse Soldier: 1776-1943, 4 Vols (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), p. 67 (hereafter cited as Steffen, The Frontier). This ac- tion, ending debates started in 1855, also renamed the First and Second Dragoons as the First and Second Cavalry, respectively. The First, Second, and Third Cavalry were redesignated the Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth Cavalry, respectively.
120. Mills, El Paso, p. 56. From Porter, “Letters,”
(Spring, 1972), p. 11, it is entirely possible that some of the major material from W. W. Mills’ book was not written from memory at that late date. In a letter to his father, Mills stated: “Before I left El Paso I wrote a very long history of my adventures during the last three months [July-September] and left it in the
.”
care of a friend . . .
121. Mesilla Times, August 24, 1861, p. 2:3.
122. Ibid., p. 2:2; Walker, “Probate,” p. 294.
123. Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 4, pp. 26-32. 124. Mesilla Times, August 17, 1861, p. 2:1; Hall,
Sibley’s, pp. 325-326.
125. Williams, “Old Timer’s,” pp. 47, 50.
Wordsworth’s widow later married Jack Martin, who owned the noted well at Aleman, on the Jornada del Muerto.
126. James B. O’Neil, They Die But Once, the Story of a Tejano (New York: Knight Publications, Inc., 1935), p. 8, 39-40 (hereafter cited as O’Neil, Tejano)-, Nancy Hamilton, “The Great Western,” The Women Who Made the West (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980), p. 195. It is not clear from the evidence presented that Sarah Bowman continued beyond Tucson into the Apache trap with the group
as argued by Hamilton.
127. Depending on the date, the rescue party could
have included the Arizona Guards, from Pinos Altos, and the Arizona Rangers, from the Mesilla Valley.
128. Hattie M. Anderson, “Mining and Indian Fighting in Arizona and New Mexico, 1858-1861: Memoirs of Hank Smith” The Panhandle— Plains Historical Review, Vol. 1 (1928), pp. 101-104 (hereafter cited as Anderson, “Indian Fighting”); O’Neil,Tejano,pp.41-46. Perhapsthe“bloated men” were Anton Brewer’s herders.
129. Anderson, “Indian Fighting,” p. 105; This grave, so close to the site of the Freeman Thomas massacre, has been misinterpreted as the mass burial of that earlier party. Conceivably, the order of the two attacks was inverted and the report of the nine Mexicans killed referred to Anton Brewer’s crew rather than the Freeman Thomas party, how- ever, it is immaterial.
130. New Orleans Delta, October 27, 1861, p. 1:4, copying the Mesilla Times of October 17, 1861.
131. New Orleans Daily Picayune, October 19, 1861, p. 1:6, copying the Mesilla Times of August 17.
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