The Confederate Invasion and Occupation of New Mexico and Arizona, 1861-62
Author | : Robert Lee Kerby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Southwest, New |
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Author | : Robert Lee Kerby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Southwest, New |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Lee Kerby |
Publisher | : Westernlore Publications |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An excellent work on the Confederate invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, which if successful, would have led to an attempt to seize the gold mines of Colorado & California.
Author | : Robert Lee Kerby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Southwest, New |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Jones |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781484184066 |
In 1862, the Confederacy made an incursion into New Mexico, into what had somewhat optimistically been dubbed the Confederate Arizona Territory in 1861. The Territory included parts of Arizona and New Mexico. The Confederate general in charge of the incursion was Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley, who (effectively) had about 2,600 men. Arrayed against him were the forces of Union Colonel (later Major General) Edward Canby, with about 5,000 men. While the number of forces was fairly insignificant by Civil War standards (no Grant or Sherman size armies here), the stakes were remarkably high, especially to have such an obscure General like Sibley leading one side, and an equally obscure colonel leading the other. If the Confederates had been successful in their invasion of New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and California might have been next, with all of the mineral wealth contained therein. If the Confederacy could have seized some of that mineral wealth, they could have financed the War indefinitely. The final deciding battle of the campaign, Glorieta Pass, is sometimes called the "Gettysburg of the West," because it was the high water mark of the Confederate incursion into the southwest. But from a strategic standpoint, it might have been as important as Gettysburg. The Union didn't win the Civil War by winning the Battle of Glorieta, but it could have lost the War by losing this battle. The book includes 33 photos/maps.
Author | : Jerry D. Thompson |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826355684 |
The Civil War in New Mexico began in 1861 with the Confederate invasion and occupation of the Mesilla Valley. At the same time, small villages and towns in New Mexico Territory faced raids from Navajos and Apaches. In response the commander of the Department of New Mexico Colonel Edward Canby and Governor Henry Connelly recruited what became the First and Second New Mexico Volunteer Infantry. In this book leading Civil War historian Jerry Thompson tells their story for the first time, along with the history of a third regiment of Mounted Infantry and several companies in a fourth regiment. Thompson’s focus is on the Confederate invasion of 1861–1862 and its effects, especially the bloody Battle of Valverde. The emphasis is on how the volunteer companies were raised; who led them; how they were organized, armed, and equipped; what they endured off the battlefield; how they adapted to military life; and their interactions with New Mexico citizens and various hostile Indian groups, including raiding by deserters and outlaws. Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen. His thorough accounting will be a gold mine for historians and genealogists, especially the appendix, which lists the names of all volunteers and militia men.
Author | : Mark Robert Peattie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : New Mexico |
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Author | : F. Stanley |
Publisher | : Sunstone Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : 0865348154 |
With limited money or free time, Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola wrote and published 177 books and booklets pertaining to the southwest. He published this work after 19 years of researching the Civil War as the Volunteers of New Mexico lived and fought it.
Author | : Robert Lee Kerby |
Publisher | : Westernlore Publications |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An excellent work on the Confederate invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, which if successful, would have led to an attempt to seize the gold mines of Colorado & California.
Author | : Dr. Walter Earl Pittman |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2011-07-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614233292 |
Although the New Mexico Territory was far distant from the main theaters of war, it was engulfed in the same violence and bloodshed as the rest of the nation. The Civil War in New Mexico was fought in the deserts and mountains of the huge territory, which was mostly wilderness, amid the continuing ancient wars against the wild Indian tribes waged by both sides. The armies were small, but the stakes were high: control of the Southwest. Retired lieutenant colonel and Civil War historian Dr. Walter Earl Pittman presents this concise history of New Mexico during the Civil War years from the Confederate invasion of 1861 to the Battles of Valverde and Glorieta to the end of the war.
Author | : Andrew F. Rolle |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806119618 |
In the midst of the heartbreak, confusion, and rumors that followed Appomattox, some Southerners resolved to emigrate rather than surrender, and emigrate they did-to South America, Europe, Canada, and Mexico. Mexico's Emperor Maximilian, trying to secure his shaky throne against Juarez' opposition, encouraged these recalcitrant Confederates to settle in Mexico. But, doomed to defeat by the internal crisis in Mexico and by the Southerners' failure to face reality, the Confederate colonies were established and destroyed within two years' time. Later, many of the colonists who survived the ordeal tried to forget that they had ever gone into exile. Among the emigrants were many prominent Southern leaders, barred from holding public office and, in some cases, facing possible arrest: General Jo Shelby, the hero of the Confederacy, who later became so reconciled to the victory of the North that he voted for a Republican; Commodore Matthew Maury, internationally recognized oceanographer and naval astronomer, who was welcomed to Mexico by Maximilian himself; Henry Watkins Allen, "the single great administrator produced by the Confederacy," who founded the English language Mexican Times; and Thomas Caute Reynolds, former lieutenant governor of Missouri, who encouraged Maximilian to stay in Mexico but who himself left. In all there may have been between eight and ten thousand Confederates in Mexico. The exodus, exile, and repatriation of the Confederates constitute a hitherto incompletely known incident in American history. In this fully documented account, Andrew F. Rolle reveals the hope, humor, disappointment, and defeat of Americans who believed that the only way to save their way of life was to leave their homeland.