New Mexico -- History
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Eve Ball papers
Collection includes research, publications, business records, and photographs which Eve Ball used in her day-to-day life.
Bernard John Dowling Irwin correspondence and diary
Handwritten and signed letter and diary. This letter is addressed to Captain Edward L. Hartz and is dated April 17, 1856. It discusses a military march through the Rio Grande Valley and life in and around Fort Union, New Mexico. The diary, kept from 1855-1856, records Irwin's journey from New York to Corpus Christi, Texas, abroad the steamship Prometheus and his overland march to Fort Filmore via a number of military forts.