Independent Companies, New Mexico Volunteer Cavalry were

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. Among these Volunteer Companies, named for there captains, were: *

Mink's Independent Cavalry Company Mink's Independent Cavalry Company, was an Independent Cavalry Company of the Union Army, raised by the New Mexico Territory during the American Civil War. Mink's Independent Cavalry Company was raised by Captain John H. Mink at Peñasco and T ...

(1861) * Graydon's Independent Cavalry Company (1862) * Graydon's Independent Cavalry Company - Reorganized (1862) * Haspell's Independent Cavalry Company (1861) * Vidal's Independent Cavalry Company (1861)Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1908; (Part 3) Regimental Histories, New Mexico Volunteers, pp.1366-1367
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