Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) July 2021 Charles Lee engaged Clinton’s rearguard

Charles Lee engaged Clinton’s rearguard near the small village of Monmouth Court House

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Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) July 2021 Charles Lee engaged Clinton’s rearguardby Patrick Kelly Fischer (Author), Phillip S. Greenwalt (Author) A detailed account of the overlooked 1862 New Mexico Campaign and Confederate ambitions in the Southwest. In late July 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor and 258 Texas cavalrymen thundered into the small village of Mesilla, tucked along the Rio Grande River in the New Mexico Territory. They skirmished with U. S. Regulars seeking to retake the town and quickly forced them to retreat. It