Hmmmm.  Lessee.

About the post entitled 'Black helicopters, etc'.

An old bud of mine named Jerry Sires wrote and recorded a song once named,

"New Years Moanin' Blues".

The refrain went,

"The cows don't know what time we got home

That it's New Years Day they haven't got a clue,

But if they knew they were able

To influence being put on the table

They damned sure wouldn't stand out there and moo!"

Seems appropro to that entry.  I should have put it there.

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As for the Glorietta Pass battlefield entry.

The land there is private.  It isn't fenced, but it's subject to development and will probably have houses placed on it during the not-too-distant future.  If you want to see it, I'd suggest you do it before too many more years pass.  It almost certainly won't remain as it is much longer.  It's changed a lot during the past decade.  Ted Turner owns the Valverde site, part of one of his enormous ranches down there.  You've got to be willing to risk a criminal trespass charge to get in there.

If you go a mile or so further along the road and keep an eye peeled you'll find a monument that was put up by the Texas Daughters of the Confederacy during the 1930s on the left about 30 yards off the road in front of a low cliff.  That marker is located at the extremity of the Texan advance.  All open territory ahead of them, Union forces in dissarray and panic retreat.

But the Colorado Volunteers circled around behind them and destroyed their supply train at Canoncito.  That was the practical end of the Sibley Brigade... it was a running fight down the Rio Grande, chased by Union forces from Fort Union and those they bypassed at Fort Craig. 

People still find their equipment and artillery occasionally cached in some unexpected locations.

New Mexico has so much history bunched up on the geography there's not a chance they'll ever try to preserve the Civil War sites more than they have, which they haven't.  Most are like Texans in that regard.  They don't even know that invasion ever happened.  Same is true with the sites from the the Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841.....Anton Chico, Villenaueva, Laguna Colorado,  only more so. 

Jack