by Don Bullis,
New Mexico Author
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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 troops, under the command of Lieutenant John Wynn Davidson, were searching for the Apaches in response to reported horse and cattle thefts from local settlers.… Read the rest