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Article: GLORIETA NOT FOUGHT BY NEW MEXICANS.(Local News)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2009
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Byline: MARC SIMMONS
Mid-June of this year saw dedication of the new Glorieta Battlefield Overlook Trail within the Pecos National Historical Park, 15 miles east of Santa Fe.
For the first time, the public was given access to the sprawling field where the bloody Civil War Battle of Glorieta took place March 28, 1862.
The state's largest newspaper titled its story of the opening ceremony with this curious headline: "Glorieta Defenders Mostly Hispanic." Those words startled me, because they were simply untrue.
Native New Mexicans
had been much in evidence
at the Battle of Valverde a month earlier. There, 30 miles ...