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Offline rio grande

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Glorieta Pass, New Mexico
« on: February 06, 2007, 04:29:38 PM »
Anybody else interested in the Texans' campaign in N.M.?  I've been to the battleground there at Glorieta, also visited Fort Union. 
Very interesting goings-on in Denver, Co. at the early stages of the war.

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Re: Glorieta Pass, New Mexico
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2007, 09:46:11 AM »
I've read

Alberts, Don. 1993 Rebels on the Rio Grande: the Civil War Journal of A.B. Peticolas. Albuequerque: Merit.

I've also had the privilege of both being allowed to hold and read Mr. Peticolas' Civil War Journal.  One of his Great-GrandDaughters has it.

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Re: Glorieta Pass, New Mexico
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2007, 04:09:39 PM »
Wolfbrother thats very cool, to actually hold the original journals. I read that book also.  I had the good fortune to go on a Parks Service (?) tour of the battleground with a Sons of Confederate Vets group.  saw where the supply wagons were burned, walked on the battle site.
i don't know how things could have turned out different.  the Texans were a long way from any supplies.  Maybe they should have hunkered down in Santa Fe.
Anyway, what a fantastic story. They dreamed big in those days.