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Making Sense of Santa Fe’s Soldiers’ Monument: Part Three

August 23, 2022

Part Three: The Monument Col. John Slough, who had led the Union forces at the Battle of Glorieta, resigned his commission shortly thereafter due to “an unfortunate difference between him and Gen. Canby concerning the conduct of the New Mexico campaign…”[1] However, he was subsequently commissioned Brigadier-General and assigned to serve as the military governor … More Making Sense of Santa Fe’s Soldiers’ Monument: Part Three

Making Sense of Santa Fe’s Soldiers’ Monument: Part Five

August 21, 2022

Part Five: Controversies and Interventions The first controversy that engulfed the Soldiers’ Monument arose not from the reference to “savage Indians,” but rather from the word “rebels.” In 1909 a resolution was introduced in the New Mexico territorial legislature to replace the words “rebels” with the terms “confederates,” on the basis that “the time has … More Making Sense of Santa Fe’s Soldiers’ Monument: Part Five