Published: 1952
Updated: December 1, 1994
Camp San Elizario was on the Rio Grande twenty-one miles below El Paso in El Paso County, at the site of San Elizario Presidio, which had been established there in 1773. On September 15, 1849, the post was occupied by companies I and K of the Third United States Infantry. In 1862 it was occupied by the California Volunteers, or the California Column, which had moved eastward to prevent invasion of California by Confederate troops.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Anonymous, “Camp San Elizario,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed January 26, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/camp-san-elizario.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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