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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RNZ_buffalo-soldier-memorial-of-el-paso_El-Paso-TX.html
"The Errand of Corporal Ross"
While on Campaign in the Guadalupe Mountains, Corporal John Ross of I Troop, 9th Calvary, was tasked to take a back trail and bring up the supply wagons that had lagged behind. Enroute to picking up the wagons, CPL R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RNS_an-almost-forgotten-history_El-Paso-TX.html
Just one year after the Civil War, Congress passed an act which created two "experimental" cavalry regiments for service on the western frontiers. African Americans, most of whom had only recently been slaves, put on blue uniforms and filled the r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AJB_fort-bliss-at-lanoria-mesa_El-Paso-TX.html
In 1849, U.S. troops led by Maj. Jefferson Van Horne established a post in what is now downtown El Paso to secure territory gained in the U.S.-Mexico War, 1846-48. It moved several times: to Magoffinsville in 1854; to Camp Concordia in 1868; back …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AGG_butterfield-overland-mail_El-Paso-TX.html
The Butterfield Overland Mail was a mail and passenger stagecoach service that linked the Western and Eastern states. John Butterfield, president of the Overland Mail Company, won a federal government contact in 1857 to take and deliver mail twice…