Texas Mexico Border Campaign at Camp Stewart scrapbook

This scrapbook contains photographs documenting a service member's time at Camp Stewart, as well as his time on leave.

Camp Stewart was established at El Paso, Texas, specifically for defense of the Texas-Mexico border against attacks by Pancho Villa and his followers. The campaign known as the Mexican Border campaign, or Pershing’s Punitive Expedition, began on March 15, 1916, when on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, Major General John J. Pershing led an expeditionary force of 4800 men in pursuit of Pancho Villa, who had raided the town of Columbus, New Mexico, six days earlier. A series of battles between Pershing’s and Villa’s forces followed, none of them decisive.

The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library. Search the finding aid/inventory for the Texas Mexico Border Campaign at Camp Stewart scrapbook, MS 0085.