[Re. “Mackenzie’s Raid Into Mexico,” by Allen Lee Hamilton, Spring 2023:] I’m a great admirer of [Ranald] Mackenzie. My son served with the 14th U.S. Cavalry in Iraq. My great-grand-father Sam Walker Trimble was born in 1848 on a ranch south of San Antonio near the Nueces River. In July 1866 a band of Kickapoo Indians crossed the border and raided several ranches between San Antonio and Linville, on the Gulf Coast.
Sam’s father, Moses Trimble, served in John Coffee Hays’ Texas
