Category: Old Times & Old Timers

  • The Battle of Cieneguilla — Nearly Fifty Lives Lost

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    by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author DonBullis.biz   In late March of 1854, a troop of First United States Army Dragoons from Cantonment Burgwin, about sixty strong, encountered a band of Jicarilla Apaches at Cieneguilla (“little marsh”) near the village of Pilar in Taos County. Some sources reported that the…