Old Ft. Bliss
August 20, 2026
Fort Bliss, established as a U.S. Army post in the El Paso region in the late 1840s and renamed in 1854 for Col. William Wallace Smith Bliss, appears in these accounts as a frontier garrison shaped by the Rio Grande, the Mexican borderlands, and the movement of troops across Texas and New Mexico…
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