The Civil War in the Southwest: The Texan Santa Fe Expedition, The Compromise of 1850, & The Dark Clouds of War

This is the third episode over the Civil War in the American Southwest.
This episode covers the Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 to take the New Mexican land from the Rio Grand eastward, the hostilities between Texas and the Federal Government that almost led to the Civil War before the Compromise of 1850, and the hopes of the future Confederacy in the American Southwest. It also covers the secretive Knights of the Golden Circle and their dreams for a slave empire in the Americas. I also cover Union Commander Canby, Confederate Commander Baylor, and a slew of other characters who will impact the war in the American Southwest. Towards the end of the episode The South and Texas secedes from the Union and the latter begins preparations for battle in New Mexico.
This is the third and final introductory episode before the Civil War actually begins.

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Selected Sources:
Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest by Donald Frazier
Jefferson Davis, Napoleon France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology by Jeffrey Zvengrowski
Texan Santa Fe Expedition By H. Bailey Carroll
The Skirmish at Mesilla, Arizona and the West, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Winter, 1959), by Martin Hardwick Hall
The Three Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson
The Civil War in New Mexico by Father Stanley
The First Filibusters, Americans in the Yucatan by Hans Von Stockhausen
The United States Army Camel Corps 1856-66 By John Shapard
The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton
Rebels on the Rio Grande, The Civil War Journal of AB Peticoles by Don E Alberts
Mangas Coloradas by Edwin R Sweeney
The Civil War in the Western Territories by Ray C Colton
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
The Battle of Glorieta Pass by Thomas S Edrington and John Taylor
The War of 1812: Stoking the Fires. Summer 2012, Vol. 44, No. 2 Impressment of Seaman Charles Davis by the U.S. Navy By John P. Deeben
Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition by George Wilkins Kendall
Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. Poston
Mule Bombs at Valverde By Dr. Conrad Crane, U. S. Army Military History Institute, February 9, 2009
Darryl Cooper’s Martyrmade: The Peculiar Institution, Part 14
The Age of Jackson Podcast: 091 Jefferson Davis and the Pro-Bonaparte Democrats with Jeffrey Zvengrowski