The Civil War in the Southwest: The Cursed Pests of Apacheria, Sibley’s Reinforcements, & Baylor’s Woes

This is the 5th Episode in the series over the Civil War in the Southwest.

In this episode, Baylor goes after the Apaches in the west. Specifically, Mangas Coloradas and Cochise as they escalate their fight against the White Eyes and the Arizona Guards. Meanwhile, the battle of Alamosa gives Baylor some hope. Unfortunately, rumors swirl of a three pronged Fedral invasion of Mesilla and Fort Fillmore. Over in Texas, Baylor raises his three armies and they eventually march west to New Mexico. I cover Baylor’s murder of a journalist, the commanders of Sibley’s Brigade’s, and the status of the other Western Territories in regards to their rumors of joining the Rebellion.

This episode is sponsored by The Buffalo Wool Co.

Selected Sources:
Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest by Donald Frazier
Jefferson Davis, Napoleon France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology by Jeffrey Zvengrowski
Texan Santa Fe Expedition By H. Bailey Carroll
The Skirmish at Mesilla, Arizona and the West, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Winter, 1959), by Martin Hardwick Hall
The Three Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson
The Civil War in New Mexico by Father Stanley
The First Filibusters, Americans in the Yucatan by Hans Von Stockhausen
The United States Army Camel Corps 1856-66 By John Shapard
The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton
Rebels on the Rio Grande, The Civil War Journal of AB Peticoles by Don E Alberts
Mangas Coloradas by Edwin R Sweeney
The Civil War in the Western Territories by Ray C Colton
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
The Battle of Glorieta Pass by Thomas S Edrington and John Taylor
The War of 1812: Stoking the Fires. Summer 2012, Vol. 44, No. 2 Impressment of Seaman Charles Davis by the U.S. Navy By John P. Deeben
Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition by George Wilkins Kendall
Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. Poston
Mule Bombs at Valverde By Dr. Conrad Crane, U. S. Army Military History Institute, February 9, 2009
Darryl Cooper’s Martyrmade: The Peculiar Institution, Part 14
The Age of Jackson Podcast: 091 Jefferson Davis and the Pro-Bonaparte Democrats with Jeffrey Zvengrowski