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132. Paul Iselin Wellman, Death in the Desert: The
Fifty Years’ Warfor the Great Southwest (New York:
The Macmillan Company, 1935), p. 71 (hereafter cited as Wellman, Death). Mastin and his men
returned to Pinos Altos the night before the attack.
Had Mangas Coloradas struck 24 hours earlier, the
outcome might well have been disastrous for the miners.
133. R.S.Allen,“PinosAltos,NewMexico,”New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 23 (Oct., 1948), pp. 303-304; Martin Hardwick Hall, “Captain Thomas J. Mastin’s Arizona Guards, C. S. A.,” New Mexico Historical Review Vol. 49 (Apr., 1974), pp. 144-146
(hereafter cited as Hall, “Arizona Guards”). The lowest estimate for the attacking Apaches was used; Fayette Alexander Jones, New Mexico Mines and Minerals (Santa Fe: The New Mexico Printing Com- pany, 1904), p. 48, placed the number at an absurd 500 warriors. The Arizona Guards did not follow Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley in his 1862 invasion of New Mexico but remained as a sort of rearguard. TheunitwasreorganizedonJuly1, 1862, and became one of the three cavalry com- panies forming Colonel P. T. Herbert’s battalion and was among the last to withdraw from the occupied territory.
134. Mesilla Times, October 17, 1861, p. 2:3.
135. New Orleans Delta, October 31, 1861, n.p., copying the Mesilla Times of October 3, 1861.
136. Houston Telegraph , November 1, 1861, p. 3:2, copying the Mesilla Times of October 10, 1861.
137. Ray Charles Colton, The Civil War in the Western Territories (Norman: University of Ok- lahomaPress,1959),pp.123-124.
138. Anderson, “Hank Smith,”, p. 89; Mesilla Times, December 19, 1861, n.p.; Faulk, Destiny, p. 139, claimed that the two fought a knife duel. This iserroneous;Kelleyadmittedtohavingasmallknife in his hand but had no opportunity to use it.
139. MartinHardwickHall,“TheBaylor-Kelley Fight: A Civil War Incident in Old Mesilla,” Vol. 5 (July, 1960), p. 88.
140. Hall, ConfederateArmy, pp. 15-17; Metz,Fort Bliss, p. 30. Despite Sibley’s low standing in the West Point class of 1838 (ranked 31st out of 45), he later invented the Sibley Tent and the accompanying stove that became a military standard. Steffen, 77te Frontier, p. 50. Of the $37.50 the government paid for each tent, $5 went to Sibley.
141. Mesilla Times, January 1, 1862, p. 2. Kelley
was 38 years old.
142. Ibid., January 8, 1862, p. 2:1.
143. Faulk, Destiny, p., 140; Thrapp, Victorio, pp. 78-79.
144. Mesilla Times, January 8, 1862, p. 2:1.
145. Houston Telegraph, November 1, 1861, p. 3:2, copying the Mesilla Times of October 10, 1861; Anderson, “Hank Smith,” pp. 89-90. Appelzoller was a baker in business with a man named Freitze in Mesilla.
146. Mills, El Paso, p. 73, erroneously claimed that Lemon later escaped and made his way to Fort Craig. Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 50, Part 1, p. 124, indicated that he was included in a July 1862 prisoner exchange with Captain William McCleave. Appelzoller was apparently released at a later time.
147. Mesilla Times, January 15, 1862, p. 2:1.
148. Wolcott, Notes, p. 263.
149. Mesilla Times, January 15, 1862, p. 2:2.
150. Porter, “Letters,” (Summer, 1972), p. 78. 151. Hall, Confederate Anny, p. 23; Francis Stan-
ley,TheFortThomNewMexicoStory(Pep,Texas: Private Publication, 1965), pp. 14-15. Captain Joseph Magoffin, James Wiley Magoffin’s 25-year- old son, was one of Sibley’s staff.
152. San Antonio Herald, September 13, 1862, p. 2: 2.
153. Hall, Confederate Anny, p. 373. Wayne R. Austerman, “Captain Madison and ’The Brigands,”’ Password, Vol. 32 (Spring, 1937), p. 27, indicated that The Brigands totaled over 30. The two sources may not be in conflict if most of the unit’s members were Texans.
154. CharlesLelandSonnichsen,RoyBean,Law WestofthePecos(OldGreenwich,Connecticut:The Devin-Adair Company, 1943), pp. 43-44.
155. Ibid., p. 44.
156. JeffersonFinisDavis,“Proclamationofthe President of the Confederate States of America,” ConfederateWarJournal,Vol.1(Oct.,1893),p.101.
157. Keleher, Turmoil, p. 265. Congress must have been ignoring what was happening in the Southwest, because in April a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to separate Arizona and New Mexico into two Territories, along a north-south line. President Lincoln signed the measure on February 24, 1863.
158. Faulk, Destiny, pp. 150-152.
159. For those more interested in these affairs, and the people involved, consult either Sibley’s New
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