Ultra rare view of Kit Carson and Edwin Perrin taken in Albuquerque NM in 1862 in uniform.   Anthony BM.   Carson was a colonel in the Union Army and the leader of the 1st New Mexico Volunteer Infantry. Perrin was a government expediter, sent to New Mexico in 1861 by the United States Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, on a secret mission to help arm New Mexico Civil War troops as the Union prepared for battle in the Southwestern Theater. Perrin worked closely with Carson in these efforts and remained with Carson's command in New Mexico through 1862.