[Kenny Bunk]

If Col. Chamberlain wasn’t there, it didn’t happen.

[TiaS]

. . . and the winners write the history.

[epow]

If my genealogy research is correct, and I'm never sure that it is given the conflicting records that I often encounter, my paternal G-Grandfather may have taken part in that battle. He and his father in law, my G-G-Grandfather of course, resigned from the Texas Rangers at some point after TX seceded. I haven't found any record of what my G-G-Grandfather did after resigning from the Rangers, but the family story is that he returned to MO where he lived before migrating to Bexar county TX.

OTOH, my G-Grandfather enlisted in Company B, 10th TX Cavalry and served in that until it surrendered to the Federal forces at Brownsville after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was badly wounded in the hip at some point before the surrender, and the almost total lack of medical treatment during both the time before surrender and the following 6 month incarceration in an open-air POW camp at Galveston left him seriously disabled until he died in 1914 of an unrelated illness.

The history of the 10th TX Cavalry is somewhat muddled and confusing in every official and unofficial account that I can find, but it seems likely that his unit spent most of the war on the west TX frontier protecting civilians from Comanche raids and other plains tribes' attacks on white settlers instead of fighting Federal forces in the east where most other TX units were sent. I haven't found any reference to the 10th being involved in the New Mexico battle, but I would think that every Confederate unit in that general area would have been involved in any major effort to oust the Feds from what the Texans believed was their rightful territory.

Please excuse me for this intrusion into the thread, it's just seemed to be an appropriate place to post a comment on a historical matter in which I have a personal interest.

[SunkenCiv]

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