The monument is located in the Socorro Presbyterian Cemetery and was erected on February 24, 2012 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The pink granite monument weighs 5300 pounds and was mined from a Texas…
The Western United States during the Civil War offered the Confederacy hope. With not many resources in the South, "In 1862, flush with a grandiose plan to conquer the New Mexico Territory and perhaps to secure for the Confederacy the vast mineral…