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Introducing: Alonzo Ickis

January 14, 2020 Megan Kate Nelson 2 Comments

Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis was the first person I wrote about in The Three-Cornered War. I found his wartime diary in…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis, Colorado Gold Rush, Colorado Territory, Gold mining, Union Army, Valverde

Introducing: Juanita

January 7, 2020 Megan Kate Nelson 1 Comment

Juanita was not one of the original protagonists of The Three-Cornered War.  Initially I planned to write about her husband, Manuelito,…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Arizona Territory, Bosque Redondo, Civil War West, Diné Bikéyah, Diné history, indigenous women, Juanita, Navajo history, Navajo Long Walk, Navajo women, Navajos, New Mexico Territory

Introducing: Bill Davidson

December 31, 2019 Megan Kate Nelson 2 Comments

On New Year’s Eve 1861, William Lott Davidson (Bill to his friends) was huddled around a campfire outside the adobe…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Bill Davidson, Civil War Texas, Civil War West, Company A 5th Texas, Confederate invasion of New Mexico, Fort Bliss, New Mexico Territory, Sibley Brigade, Texas

Introducing: Louisa Hawkins Canby

December 26, 2019 Megan Kate Nelson Leave a comment

I first read about Louisa Hawkins Canby in the records of Confederate Texans. She was married to the Union colonel…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Civil War nurses, Civil War West, civilians during wartime, homefront war, household war, Louisa Hawkins Canby, New Mexico Territory, Santa Fe, women in war

Introducing: Mangas Coloradas

December 19, 2019 Megan Kate Nelson Leave a comment

When John Baylor invaded New Mexico Territory on behalf of the Confederacy in the summer of 1861, the Chiricahua Apache…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Apacheria, Apaches, Arizona Territory, Chiricahuas Apaches, Civil War history, Civil War West, Mangas Coloradas, New Mexico Territory

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