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From: "Blood & Treasure - Confederate Empire in the Southwest" by Donald S. Frazier, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1995, page 50.

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"...While Sibley's train swayed its way across the South, Baylor molded a small army along the banks of the Rio Grande. He counted jusst 350 men in his command after dropping off garrisons at the Texas Trans-Pecos forts but replacing the losses with recruits from the El Paso area. Local units, some raised to fight Indians, others recruited for the coming campaign, rode into town to offer their services. Capt. Trevanion Teel's KGC company, now armed with four six-pounder field guns, renewed its service as an artillery battery. Another organization, the mostly Hispanic Mesilla Brass Band, enlisted to provide martial music for Baylor's army. His final cadre included two companies of the Second Texas Mounted Rifles and detachments from two more, along with Capt. Bethel Coopwood's Spy Company and the adventurous denizens of the surrounding scrub."

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~Jay~

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