Glorieta Pass | Civil War New Mexico

Glad you finally made it there and to New Mexico. It's a beautiful place.

There is a monument in Colorado Springs to the 1st CO. It's a LONG drive to Santa Fe. Being a history nerd stationed in CO, I was all over from Las Cruces to Cheyenne. Lots of good stuff in between. Thanks for the video, Garry!

The Sergio Leone movie, "The Good the Bad & the Ugly" starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef is loosely (very) based on this battle. The battle scenes in the movie were shot in Spain.

My grandmother used to reenact with the New Mexico volunteers and reenacted with them dressed as a man in the 1970s there. And thanks to her she got me into civil war reenacting. Very special place to me for more than just its historic significance.

Great video Gary. I recommend to time your visit when the Park Service has a ranger giving tours of the battlefield. If you want to learn about the real Col Chivington, visit the very sad Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Colorado where a group of Colorado Volunteers, under the command of Chivington murdered 70 to 600 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho (around two-thirds who were women and children).

Did not realize New Mexico was so involved in the Civil War. Great job and great addition of Trace Adkins voice over.

So glad to see this followup to the previous video on Ft Craig/Valverde, thanks so much! The whole New Mexico Campaign is really a story of incredible marches, starting with the movement of Sibley's brigade from San Antonio to Franklin, a fair day's drive barrelling down the interstate. And that was done by several thousand men and all the horses and mules it took to support and transport them over country where water is scarce. And coming in the opposite direction was Carleton's California Column, making its way over terrain equally if not more challenging. A book I like is "Blood and Treasure" by Donald Frazier which also goes into Baylor's capture of Ft Fillmore and the Fistful of Dollars political atmosphere of the Confederate Territory of Arizona. Another site worth visiting if you happen to be traveling in Texas is Ft Lancaster, a bit west of Ozona on the old US 290. It's a nice state historical park. One of the burials in the cemetery is one of Sibley's men who died of disease. It's a very lonely place to wait for eternity.

So happy to see that you finally were able to make it out here. Ft. Union and Ft. Craig are so much different from each other. Really hardy people to say the least.

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Thanks so much for doing a segment on Glorieta Pass! On a trip out west in 2015, I drove through the battlefield on the interstate without even knowing it, or knowing that a major battle took place in the area! I don't remember how I finally got clued in, but I did my research back home here in OH and was like, "damn, I totally missed visiting a pivotal moment of the western theater!" Talk about regrets! So, thanks A TON Gary for taking me back there in the virtual sense!

Great video as always! Garry’s enthusiasm is contagious. Thanks for sharing about these little known battles!!

Thank-you for bringing us these exposés/battles that involved Texans. Hello from Houston. 🙋🏻‍♂️

Great to see another video about Sibley's New Mexico Campaign.

Gary is the man!!! Thank you!

Great stuff, Garry...as always. The Civil War is endlessly fascinating to me, and there is always more to learn!

Thanks for doing the New Mexico Campaign. More people than know it have actually heard of this. It's what the action is very, very loosely based on in THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. And when I say loosely, I mean like just the names. But if you don't know, you don't know. Hope you really enjoyed your stay.

One of the most forgotten aspects of Glorieta Pass is that Captain James Hobart Fords Independent Company of Colorados was both present at Apache Canyon and the wagon and mule BBQ at Johnson's Ranch . Both Independent Company's of Colorados ,Captain Fords and Captain Dodds were instrumental in the New Mexico Campaign. Both of the Independent Companys fought at Albuquerque and Peralta, helping kick Sibleys Brigade back to Franklin. The Independent Companies help for the nucleus of the 2nd Colorado and were converted to Cavalry and sent to Missouri to help level the playing field in 1864-65. The damn lousy miners, pulled it off! Great video...

For reference, these books are great: - Rebels on the Rio Grande (Don Albert’s) - Three Years and a half (Ellen Williams)

You are the man Gary! Great video.

Loved Glorieta Pass when I visited. Had beautiful blue skies and gorgeous cool weather. Been lucky to have been there twice. Also went to nearby Pecos NP which was also fascinating. Beautiful part of the country. Also got to Fort Craig and Fort Union. Didn't get a chance to get to Valverde unfortunately.