Fort Fillmore, located at 32°13′30″N 106°42′52″W, [2][3] was a United States military fortification established by Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner in September 1851 near Mesilla in what is now …
Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, was located along the Rio Grande, not far from the Mexican border and about six miles southeast of the town of Mesilla. This tiny adobe fort was founded to …
Fort Fillmore, located at 32°13′30″N 106°42′52″W, [2] [3] was a United States military fortification established by Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner in September 1851 near Mesilla in what is now …
About a mile east of this point are the ruins of old Fort Fillmore, which at one time was an important strategical point on the Mexican border. In 1851, the troops were moved from Camp …
Fort Fillmore (1851-1862) - First established 23 Sep 1851 by Lt. Colonel Dixon S. Miles (Cullum 387), and troops from the 3rd U.S. Infantry at Fort Bliss. Named after U.S. President Millard …
The First Battle of Mesilla was fought on July 25, 1861, at Mesilla in New Mexico Territory, in present-day Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was an engagement between Confederate and …
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