at Candelaria, Captain Leonard Matlock, 8th Cavalry, received information regarding an imminent attack on Nevill Ranch. Matlock then sent out a patrol, under a Lieutenant Gaines, to warn Edwin. Edwin was not at the ranch at the time, but in Van Horn buying supplies. After hearing these same reports in town, Edwin rode with his son for eight hours straight, back to the ranch. After arriving back at the ranch to find it unharmed, Edwin gathered with everyone on the ranch in the family house to discuss the rumors about the imminent attack. At some point Glenn went to check on sounds from outside the house, and when he peered out a window, he saw in the dim light some "fifty approaching horsemen" who then opened fire with small arms. Providing insufficient cover, the Nevills and Castillos fled the house to a ditch about 300 yards away. Glenn was shot in the head, and while he lay wounded, the raiders approached and beat him to death with the butts of their rifles. Rosa was also "shot and her body mutilated" as well as sexually assaulted in front of her children while her husband escaped on a pony. After this, the raiders turned to pillaging the ranch of horses, food, clothing, bedding and other supplies. Edwin fled on foot and was later found "wandering" through the desert. Aftermath Rosa's husband found Lieutenant Gaines and his patrol six miles away from the ranch and told them what had happened. Gaines then followed the man back to the lower Nevill Ranch, arriving just after the raiders left, and from there he went to the upper ranch to inform his commander, Colonel George Langhorne, by telephone. Colonel Langhorne responded by dispatching Captain Henry H. Anderson and Troop G, 8th Cavalry, from Everett Ranch, an army camp about thirty-four miles north of Candelaria. At the same time, Troop A, 8th Cavalry, was mobilized in Marfa and sent to Valentine by rail. From there they mounted up and set out for Nevill Ranch. By 4:00 pm, on March 26, Captain Anderson had assembled both troops, and a mule train for supplies, at the ranch and he was ready to begin pursuing the raiders. The Americans crossed the Rio Grande into Chihuahua shortly thereafter and quickly found the Mexicans' trail. According to Colonel Langhorne, Anderson and his men followed the Mexicans over rough mountainous country for about