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This monument was erected by the Texas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy on 1 June 1936 in memory of Texas mounted volunteers, commemorating the Battle of Valverde on 21 February 1862.

Directions: From US Interstate 25, exit 124, travel east one mile on a very bumpy dirt road which then crosses NM Hwy 1, near mile marker 35.  After crossing  NM Hwy 1, continue east on the dirt road past San Marcial towards the water canel and across the railroad tracks (this site is not maintained nor marked).

April 2000

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