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Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign (Kelly-Fischer, Greenwalt CWC) camping very oftenby 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