Rosa read Carleton’s instructions to Carson: “All Indian men of tribe are to be killed whenever and wherever you can find them. In late 1862 he ordered Fort Stanton to be reoccupied, and he sent Colonel Kit Carson to punish the recent aggressions of the Mescaleros. His first order of business was to control and punish the Mescalero Apaches. General Carleton was named the commander of the Department of New Mexico, headquartered in Santa Fe. But Sibley had already lost to Union forces and was gone by the time Carleton arrived. He was charged with driving Sibley’s Confederate Army out of New Mexico. In 1862 he marched the California Column, an army of two thousand men, from California to New Mexico. Perhaps the story began with Colonel James H. The plight of the Mescalero Apaches of the area touched Rosa.
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