COLORES | Gettysburg Of The West | New Mexico PBS

[@LonnieSatter]

I am a Texan by birth but I am a New Mexican by choice. There really is no better state than NM!

[@outrageddeer2101]

You my friend are living proof that there are smart Texans

[@xman3616]

Que Viva Nuevo Mexico !

[@johnwood8441]

Except Colorado

[@christopherstimpson6540]

There has always been a privately built marker at this battle site along I-25 just before the Pecos/Glorieta exit. No state monument or anything. One land owner was digging a foundation for a new house and dug into an unmarked grave site of soldiers. So obviously many in uniform died there. This battle site is mostly forgotten.

[@rebsarge]

The Confederate soldiers who were buried in that mass grave were exhumed and reburied in the National Cemetery, in Santa Fe. Only three were identified: Ebenezer Hannah, JSL Cotton, and Maj. John Shropshire. The Major's remains were returned to his family in Kentucky, where he rests between his parents.

[@civilwarwildwest]

It took me forever to figure out that the slow, low, deep voice is singing a line from the love song "Lorena". Michael Martin Murphy and the 97th Regimental String Band have both done outstanding versions of that song.

[@rebsarge]

It was actually Stephen Dubinsky, of Santa Fe. He held every rank in our unit, the 4th Texas Mounted Volunteers, from private to Lt. Col., and was an inspirational leader. He was an absolute master of Hardee's Tactics. I know that was Steph's singing becuase I was there, across the fire from him, and I show up in several scenes. I hven't seen this old production in years, and, my God, there are so many old friends who have left empty chairs! Deo Vindici, my brothers. As a critical comment, the narration is not perfect, but is quite accurate in the important points.

[@dragonfly111cute]

Some things never change

[@Hi-lb8cq]

Wish they had the glorita pass reenactment again...hasn't been held for a couple of years now

[@svenhillring3275]

I know. It was fun. I was there in 2016 for both the NPS living history weekend at Pecos and the Glorieta event at Golondrinas.

[@pvs61195]

i live in new mexico i love that my state stood for the union LONG LIVE THE UNOIN

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

The territory was divided in half, half Union half Confederate, it wasn't entirely for the Union

[@outrageddeer2101]

Here in Eastern New Mexico almost every native New Mexican is really to a Confederate so long live New Mexico done with the Yankee tyranny

[@wrestlehard226america8]

Oh way down south in the Land of Traitors, Rattlesnakes and alligators!

[@01Lenda]

​@wrestlehard226america8 Or up in the land of the stank yank, with traitors, tyranny and general schmucks.

[@23rdMS_Inf]

New Mexico was the hardest part. If they had made it to Colorado, they would've found much more support, as roughly half the CO population were southerners who went there to mine and seek fortune.

[@BLFulle]

Thank God they didn't make it.

[@lobohoops]

Hey Texas, Don't mess with New Mexico.

[@colors8784]

But it was a Regiment appointed from Colorado who dealed with Sidley's men....

[@outrageddeer2101]

Yeah through more New Mexicans in the rebel Army than there was in the unions

[@agentmulder1019]

The Union DID win, but WHAT has this "UNION" become??? We have a "UNION" of oppressive taxation..a "UNION" of self-serving parasitic politicians, a "UNION" of "sheeple" who would rather trade liberty for security with an embarrassing ignorance of WHO we WERE and WHO we ARE TODAY!

[@animefan0077]

And to think Sergio Leone immortalize the New Mexico campaign in The Good The Bad and The Ugly

[@jentorres9076]

He did? I will have to pay more attention next time I see it.

[@xotl2780]

@@jentorres9076 Look out for the names 'Canby' and 'Sibley' on your next watch. Union and Confederate commanders respectively. Also try to ignore the North Virginian battleflag, if you can.

[@markw4907]

At least one other comment mentions Sergio Leone. The director had great success with his first two westerns and was fronted a large amount of money by United Artists. As a WW2 survivor, he wanted to make an anti war about the US Civil War but that couldn’t be a Western...or could it? This campaign provided the perfect background and notice that Eastwood only becomes the Man With No Name at the very end after finding a Confederate poncho(Confederates frequently used and tailored blankets like a poncho, so it is reasonable that such a garment in New Mexico Territory would look just like what you see).

[@joziahchama2735]

What is the name of the church/morada at 7:56?

[@RioAbajoBelen]

Diablo Tejanos......how true. Long Live New Mexico, Long Live the Union!

[@HomeGypsy]

Agree. And this year we are going to toss them out of power again. Signed, a fourth generation New Mexican.

[@outrageddeer2101]

Long live New Mexico don with Yankee tyranny

[@agentmulder1019]

Ok, the Union prevailed. Being a Texan, i am proud of the Lone Star State's contribution to the Lost Cause. However, New Mexico would be better if it were annexed by our great Texas.

[@outrageddeer2101]

@@agentmulder1019 go fuck yourself and and your lone star state viva New Mexico

[@guarddog9556]

@@agentmulder1019 Texas should be annexed by Louisiana Mexico and Oklahoma

[@pianorama]

I had no idea. Thank you.

[@Odin31b]

How could you skip Valverde?

[@uwantsun]

well done.

[@svenhillring3275]

No wonder I didn't see anybody I recognized. I didn't participate in my first Civil War reenactment in New Mexico until 2003. This was copywrited in 1990.

[@lukenelson6907]

i was born near the battle site

[@tonybarde2572]

This is where I first heard the songs New York Volunteer and Lorena

[@rebsarge]

Several of the Yanks at tht event were from an Airzona outfit that protrayed the 23rd State of New York infantry. They were very good! We faced them many times, both on the battlefiield and in the tavern, and found them to be as fine friends as respected enemies.

[@tonybarde2572]

@@rebsarge Yeah

[@VictorRochaGaming]

Confederate script? LOL!! I'll give you two Jeffersons for that chicken, y'all.

[@rebsarge]

Yeah, even the Rebel troops were amused by that, however, Sibley's proclamation of "liberation" to the people of New Mexico abrogateed all taxes owed to the Fedeeral government, which was pretty popular!

[@kevinedwards8330]

History would of been different if it wasn't for this war

[@derkomissar100]

Lt. Col. Scurry sure does sound like a Yankee to me...

[@rebsarge]

My good friend, Steph Dubinsky, portrayed Scurry at this event, and he wa as southern as a man can get, though his accent didn't really reflect that.

[@michaeldougfir9807]

Poor sound. Lazy, sloppy report. Stand up, or sit at a table and give a manly report!

[@ridonkulousnate]

Colonel John Chivington was and is still a hero. He deserves to have his name and honor restored for his victories over the savages!

[@connorleyden6676]

Nate Marshall In regards to his actions in the Civil War, he was in every respect a hero.

[@STLOU87]

Connor Leyden the sand creek massacre happened during the civil war. what that man did was atrocious and is the absolute definition of a war crime. I'm sure his actions at Glorieta pass and Apache canyon may have been honorable according to the conduct of the war with the southern confederacy. but ordering the massacre of women and children is no suck honorable deed. what has infected Nate's head in order for him to think that there is a name and honor that can be restored is beyond psychotic. its inhuman. Nate Marshall you need to get your head right son.

[@tonybarde2572]

Chivington's actions at Sand Creek was what inspired Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to shoot up their school.

[@STLOU87]

TheCattleRancher Yeehaw can you site evidence to back this up?

[@tonybarde2572]

STLOU87 Well, they wanted to kill a bunch of people to gain their place in history and so I guess Chivington influenced them. Like Harris and Klebold, Chivington wanted to have an important place in history by killing Indians. Harris and Klebold also wanted publicity. But their role models were the Espinosa boys, Felipe and Jose. The Espinosa boys were robbers and murderers in Colorado in 1863 and killed 32 people. Like Harris and Klebold, the Espinosa boys were driven by a need of revenge. This until Tom Tobin hunted them down and killed Felipe and Jose.

[@Hi-lb8cq]

The narrator sounds native American...

[@Odin31b]

Hispanic, Northern NM

[@xotl2780]

Given the region, that might be appropriate, today and back then.

[@BLFulle]

He's Hispanic