"Black Jack" Pershing operated in northern Mexico "in pursuit of Villa with the single objective of capturing him and putting a stop to his forays." 2 Another 140,000 regular army and National Guard troops patrolled the vast border between Mexico and the United States to discourage further raids. 1 From March 16, 1916, to February 14, 1917, an expeditionary force of more than fourteen thousand regular army troops under the command of Brig.
troops serving in the Mexican Punitive Expedition recrossed the border from Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico, into Columbus, New Mexico. Eleven months earlier the bandit Francisco "Pancho" Villa had raided Columbus. With approximately 485 men, known as Villistas, Villa had attacked the border town on March 9, 1916. According to War Department reports, ten American officers and soldiers were killed, two officers and five soldiers wounded, eight civilians killed, and two wounded. The Mexican irregulars' losses numbered approximately one hundred killed, with seven wounded and captured. 3 | Genealogy Notes By Mitchell YockelsonĮighty years ago, in February 1917, the last of the U.S. The United States Armed Forces and the Mexican Punitive Expedition: Part 1įall 1997, Vol.
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