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Union Captain James ‘Paddy’ Graydon

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By today’s standards, Paddy Graydon might be considered brutal and impulsive. In the harsh climate of wartime New Mexico, however, he was the right man at the right time. Contemporaries were quick to praise him as ‘always hovering around the foe, watching with eagle eye for a chance to strike a telling blow’; ‘an enterprising fearless leader of a desperate band’; and ‘a brave man…. No undertaking was too hazardous for him to attempt.’ Graydon died as he lived — as an independent, sometimes reckless soldier who never backed down from a fight.

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