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Excerpt from The American Conflict, Vol. 2: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65; Its Causes, Incidents, and Results; Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, With the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery
Gen. H. F. Sibley had encounter ed similar difficulties, save in the qualities of his men, in organizing and arming, in north-western Texas, the Sibley Brigade, designed for the conquest Of New Mexico. His funds were scanty, and the credit Of his Government quite as low as that depended on by Canby; but the settled, productive districts Of Texas were not very remote nor inaccessible, while Canby's soldiers were for weeks on short allowance, simply because provisions for their comfortable sub sistence were not to be had in New Mexico, nor nearer than Missouri, then a revolutionary volcano, where production had nearly ceased. Two insignificant collisions had taken place near Fort Craig.'2 In the earlier, a company of New Mexican volunteers, Capt. Mink, were routed and pursued by a party Of Texans, who, in their turn, were beaten and chased away, with considerable loss, by about 100 regulars from the fort.
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