Texas Mounted Volunteers - Glorieta Pass Battlefield - Glorieta, NM
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N 35° 34.055 W 105° 44.757
13S E 432403 N 3936244
This red granite marker is inset into a boulder just north of a parking area.
Waymark Code: WMFD4K
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2012
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This area is part of the Pecos National Monument. This monument is east of the actual Battlefield, which is listed as highly endangered - (
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Text of the monument reads:
In loyal memory of the Texas Mounted Volunteers Sibleys Brigade C.S.A. who died in service at Glorieta Pass. March 28, 1862
Erected by the Texas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy
Oct. 1, 1939
From the National Parks Service Website on the role the Texans played in the campaign:
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"In 1861, Jefferson Davis commissioned General Henry Hopkins Sibley to raise three full regiments in West Texas, which eventually became the Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Texas Volunteer Cavalry. The Fourth was commanded by Colonel James Reily with Colonel William R. Scurry second in command. The Fifth was led by Col. Thomas Green with Lt. Harry C. Macneill and the Seventh was commanded by Col. William Steele with Lt. Col J. S. Sutton as second. Lt. Col John Baylor, self-appointed Governor of the new territory, led the Second Texas Regiment, Mounted Rifles. By late Fall 1861, there were 3,500 men prepared to invade New Mexico."