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Battle of Ojinaga Refugees Routed to Fort Bliss
A January clash at Ojinaga sent 300 Mexican soldiers and about 600 women and children fleeing across the Rio Grande into the United States. The refugees were interned under Wilson’s order at Fort Bliss Texas with the Twentieth Infantry in charge. The camp of twenty thousand soldiers stretched across the desert with electric fences and barred entry, while smallpox and typhoid vaccinations were carried out amid quarantine and medical care.
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