5th Texas Lancers, Valverde

[Stryker65]

Not really any information, but just wanted to share my laptop background: a great painting of the charge of the lancers at Valverde:

Artwork of the famed Don Troiani. Company B, of the 5th Texas Cavalry, was almost annihilated in the charge.

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

Charge of the 5th Texas Lancers | Trans Mississippi Theaters

Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley and his brigade of over 2,500 men, consisting mostly of Texans, marched up the valley of the Rio Grande toward the territorial capital of Santa Fe and the Federal storehouses at Fort Union. Fort Craig sat in his path on the west side of the Rio Grande, garrisoned...

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