America's Civil War Source
A resource for those interested in the study of America's Civil War
Monday
July 8, 1861
Sibley to Texas

Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley is order to
Texas. He is going to begin a campaign to try to bring the New
Mexico Territory into the Confederacy. Forces are being
assembled in Texas under the cover of a "buffalo hunt". General
Sibley is know as the inventor of the Sibley Tent which is in use in
the U.S. Army.