Texans Invade New Mexico For Second Time

Lone Star Confederates beat the daylights out of the Yankee rearguard in the New Mexico Territory on Feb. 21, 1862 and took a giant step toward winning the West for Richmond. Twenty-one years after the Santa Fe Expedition ended in death for a few and dungeons for many more, Texans were back in New Mexico. This time their mission was not to annex the land for the Lone Star Republic but to conquer…