Great use of your historical imagination to set the scene where Weeks wrote the letter.

…icer at Camp Furlough and local civil authorities to help rid the town of “undesirable characters.” As he types away at the letter he can’t but argue that the 24th’s place is protecting the people of Columbus. He hopes that for the sake of the town the governor will understand that these individuals are ess…
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Great use of your historical imagination to set the scene where Weeks wrote the letter. What stake did Weeks have in the decision of whether or not to remove the 24th? How might his position as Secretary of War influence the types of decisions he made?
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Written by Brandon Morgan128 Followers
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Associate Dean, History Instructor, & researcher of the Borderlands, U.S. West, & Modern Mexico. I just published a book about violence and the rural border.
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