Both expeditions failed to do more than create apprehension by both the United States and Mexico that trade would be interrupted on the Santa Fe Trail.

The expedition failed and 172 men, "weak, starved, and scurvy-ridden," surrendered to New Mexico Governor Manuel Armijo.

[4] On August 16, 1842, Charles A. Warfield, a merchant, was authorized by the Texas Secretary of War George Washington Hockley to invade New Mexico.

He planned to unite his forces at Point of Rocks in Mexican-claimed territory on the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail near present-day Liberal, Kansas.

Colonel Stephen W. Kearney of the U.S. army granted the request, although he was ordered not to cross into Mexican territory on the south side of the Arkansas River.

One of Warfield's officers, John McDaniel, with a gang of about 13 men murdered a Mexican trader, Antonio Jose Chavez, and five of his employees along the Santa Fe trail near present-day Lyons, Kansas in early April 1943.

However, a camp of New Mexican ciboleros (bison hunters) responded and on June 14 near Wagon Mound attacked Warfield and recaptured their horses and left him on foot.

The Mexican prisoners were released and a group of 76 called the "home boys" left Snively and marched eastward toward Arkansas.

With about 70 men left, Snively and Warfield contemplated attacking a Mexican trade caravan, but decided they had not the capability to do so and returned to Texas, disbanding on August 6.