History of the area

I'm interested in the killing of Captain Henry Stanton, who Fort Stanton is named after. He was killed in 1855, near Mayhill, according to this account:

Shuster, J. (2012, Dec. 31). A Cold New Mexican January in 1855. Jack Shuster's Western History blog. Online. jackshuster.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-cold-new-mexican-january-in-1855.html. Accessed 1-2020.

This account puts his killing in a deep ravine near the modern town of Mayhill, but on the Rio Penasco, which runs through Mayhill

I'm dying to know more, so to speak, also about the German prisoner of war camps in Mayhill at the time. There's stuff out there to be learned. In this situation, the Mescaleros appear to have won the battle, but lost the war. They were unprepared to really go up against the American army, though they knew this area, and knew where to ambush Stanton and his men, and got the best of them in this particular encounter. Overall, historians point out, it was bad for the Mescaleros; they couldn't sustain victories against the army at that time.

I'll post more as I get it.