Bloody Valverde recreation Revised 2017

Revised 2017

Includes Wassuk Range

Wild Rivers recreation area

picnic sites

and additional text material and maps on the geology of New Mexico

Bloody Valverde recreation Revised 2017When Jefferson Davis commissioned Henry H. Sibley a brigadier general in the Confederate army in the summer of 1861, he gave him a daring mission: to capture the gold fields of Colorado and California for the South. Their grand scheme, premised on crushing the Union forces in New Mexico and then moving unimpeded north and west, began to unravel along the sandy banks of the Rio Grande late in the winter of 1862. At Valverde ford, in a day long battle